Frontmatter -- Introduction / NORDBERG, BENGT -- Language Use in Rural and Urban Settings / MALMBERG, ANNA / NORDBERG, BENGT -- Internal Migration, Biography Formation and Linguistic Change / ANDERSSON, ROGER / THELANDER, MATS -- Linguistic Variation and Composite Life Modes / PEDERSEN, INGE LISE -- From the Valley to the City: Language Modification and Language Attitudes / OMDAL, HELGE -- On the Interlinkage of Sociolinguistic Background Variables / NUOLIJÄRVI, PIRKKO -- The Pronoun minä 'I' in Urban Sweden Finnish / LAINIO, JARMO / WANDE, ERLING -- Bidialectalism and Identity / IVARS, ANN-MARIE -- The Finnish Language in Helsinki / PAUNONEN, HEIKKI -- Urbanization and Language Shift / TANDEFELT, MARIKA -- Bibliography -- Contributors