This article examines the literary representation of contemporary urban vernaculars (CUV) in fiction. It focuses specifically on four Swedish novels published in the last ten years, whose narratives are set in the urban and increasingly multilingual, migrant-rich and class-stratified peripheral areas of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The analysis centers on how they are situated in these urban peripheries, using written representations of spoken, non-standard Swedish CUV as symbolic resources to give authenticity to the narratives. We examine the distinctive linguistic features that are employed to evoke the imagination of CUV, and how these are used to build the fictional characters and to create certain recognizable social personas and practices. We also discuss the linguistic features that are available but are not exploited to represent the fictional characters’ ways of speaking, and possible reasons why this is so. Finally, we examine how the novels exploit contrasts between registers, particularly between CUV and adult second-language speaker styles and between CUV and standard Swedish, and with what effects. The findings are discussed in the context of the broader social discourses about language, migration, CUV and adult second-language speakers in present-day Sweden.

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将谈话转化为文本：瑞典小说中当代都市白话的表现

本文探讨了小说中当代都市白话（CUV）的文学表现。它特别关注过去十年出版的四本瑞典小说，这些小说的叙述背景是瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩的城市和日益多语言、移民丰富和阶级分层的外围地区。分析的重点是它们如何位于这些城市外围，使用口头、非标准瑞典 CUV 的书面表示作为符号资源，以赋予叙述真实性。我们研究了用于唤起 CUV 想象力的独特语言特征，以及如何使用这些特征来构建虚构人物并创建某些可识别的社会角色和实践。我们还讨论了可用但未被用来表示虚构人物的说话方式的语言特征，以及造成这种情况的可能原因。最后，我们研究了小说如何利用语域之间的对比，特别是 CUV 和成人第二语言说话者风格之间以及 CUV 和标准瑞典语之间的对比，以及产生什么效果。这些发现是在当今瑞典关于语言、移民、CUV 和成人第二语言使用者的更广泛的社会讨论的背景下进行讨论的。