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  • Diversity and Super-Diversity

    Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives

    by Jan Blommaert, Ruth Wodak, Markus Rheindorf, Elana Shohamy, Suresh Canagarajah, Fatma Said, Zhu Hua, Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge0, Rachel Hu1, Elizabeth Miller2, Anastasia Nylund3, Betsy Rymes4, Geeta Aneja5, Andrea Leone-Pizzighella6, Mark Lewis7, Robert Moore8, Luisa Martin Rojo9, Christine Anthonissen0, Inmaculada García-Sánchez1, Virginia Unamuno2, Anna De Fina4 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and languages. Further, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

    by Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration

    by Professor Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Advances in Sociolinguistics
    At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, communities and individuals take in response to questions raised by the increasingly diverse forms of migration experienced in a globalized world?The volume reveals the profound impact that decisions made ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • State Ideology and Language in Tanzania

    Second and revised edition

    by Jan Blommaert ...

    $27.29 USD

  • Language and Superdiversity

    Edited by Karel Arnaut, Jan Blommaert, Ben Rampton, Massimiliano Spotti ...
    A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity, this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the issues and state-of-the-art research papers organized around three themes: Sketching the paradigm, Sociolinguistic complexity, Policing complexity. The focus is to show how complexity rather than plurality can serve as a lens through which an equally vast range of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

    Essays in Honour of Sjaak Kroon

    Edited by Massimiliano Spotti, Jos Swanenberg, Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this sometimes over-policed ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes

    Chronicles of Complexity

    by Dr. Jan Blommaert ...
    Series Book 18 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Dialogues with Ethnography

    Notes on Classics, and How I Read Them

    by Dr. Jan Blommaert ...
    Series Book 10 - Encounters
    This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommaert traces the influence of his reading of classic works about ethnography on his thinking, and discusses a range of authors who have influenced the development of a theoretical system of ethnography, or whose work might be productively used to develop ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Engaging Superdiversity

    Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices

    Edited by Karel Arnaut, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Dr. Massimiliano Spotti, Dr. Jan Blommaert ...
    Series Book 7 - Encounters
    This book is the fruition of five years’ work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary research into the potential and the limits of human cultural creativity and societal renewal under conditions of increasing and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Debating Diversity

    Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance

    by Jan Blommaert, Jef Verschueren ...
    Immigration, racism and nationalism have become hotly debated issues in the Western world. This highly original and controversial work focuses on the language used by the vast majority who regard themselves as being open to a multi-cultural society. Using Belgium as a case study and drawing parallels with the UK, US, Europe and the former Yugoslavia, the authors analyse this language and reveal a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ethnographic Fieldwork

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Dr. Jan Blommaert, Dong Jie ...
    Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don’t know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Grassroots Literacy

    Writing, Identity and Voice in Central Africa

    by Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Literacies
    What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between ‘grassroots’ literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities, and ‘elite’ literacies.Displaced from their original context to elite literacy environments in the form of letters, police declarations and pieces ... Read more

    $73.99 USD