Karel Arnaut is Associate Professor, Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC) | Faculty of Social Sciences, K.U.Leuven (Belgium). Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). He coordinates the INCOLAS consortium and is one of the group leaders of the Max Planck Sociolinguistic Diversity Working Group. Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied and Sociolinguistics at King’s College, London (UK). He is the Founding Convenor of the UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Honorary Doctor at Copenhagen University.Massimiliano Spotti is Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics and Deputy Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University (The Netherlands).

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• CONTENTS1. IntroductionKarel Arnaut , Jan Blommaert, Ben Rampton, and Massimiliano SpottiPart 1: Sketching the paradigm2. Language and superdiversityJan Blommaert and Ben Rampton3. Super-diversity: Elements of an emerging perspectiveKarel Arnaut4. From multilingual classification to translingual ontology: A turning pointDavid ParkinPart II: Sociolinguistic complexity5. Drilling down to the grain in superdiversityBen Rampton6. Buffalaxing the other: Superdiversity in action on YouTubeSirpa Leppänen and Ari Häkkinen7. Polylanguaging in super-diversityJens Normann Jørgensen, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Lian Malai Madsen, and Janus Spindler Møller8. ‘A typical gentleman’: Metapragmatic stereotypes as systems of distinctionAdrian Blackledge and Angela Creese9. Mobility, voice, and symbolic restratification: An ethnography of ‘elite migrants’ in urban ChinaJie DongPart III: Policing complexity10. Ethnographic linguistic landscape analysis and social change: A case studyJan Blommaert and Ico Maly11. Superdiversity on the Internet: A case from ChinaPiia Varis and Xuan Wang12. Translating global experience into institutional models of competency: Linguistic inequalities in the job interviewCelia Roberts13. Sociolinguistic shibboleths at the institutional gate: Language, origin and the construction of asylum seekers’ identitiesMassimiliano Spotti

Karel Arnaut is Associate Professor, Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC) | Faculty of Social Sciences, K.U.Leuven (Belgium). Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). He coordinates the INCOLAS consortium and is one of the group leaders of the Max Planck Sociolinguistic Diversity Working Group. Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied and Sociolinguistics at King’s College, London (UK). He is the Founding Convenor of the UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Honorary Doctor at Copenhagen University.Massimiliano Spotti is Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics and Deputy Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University (The Netherlands).

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• CONTENTS1. IntroductionKarel Arnaut , Jan Blommaert, Ben Rampton, and Massimiliano SpottiPart 1: Sketching the paradigm2. Language and superdiversityJan Blommaert and Ben Rampton3. Super-diversity: Elements of an emerging perspectiveKarel Arnaut4. From multilingual classification to translingual ontology: A turning pointDavid ParkinPart II: Sociolinguistic complexity5. Drilling down to the grain in superdiversityBen Rampton6. Buffalaxing the other: Superdiversity in action on YouTubeSirpa Leppänen and Ari Häkkinen7. Polylanguaging in super-diversityJens Normann Jørgensen, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Lian Malai Madsen, and Janus Spindler Møller8. ‘A typical gentleman’: Metapragmatic stereotypes as systems of distinctionAdrian Blackledge and Angela Creese9. Mobility, voice, and symbolic restratification: An ethnography of ‘elite migrants’ in urban ChinaJie DongPart III: Policing complexity10. Ethnographic linguistic landscape analysis and social change: A case studyJan Blommaert and Ico Maly11. Superdiversity on the Internet: A case from ChinaPiia Varis and Xuan Wang12. Translating global experience into institutional models of competency: Linguistic inequalities in the job interviewCelia Roberts13. Sociolinguistic shibboleths at the institutional gate: Language, origin and the construction of asylum seekers’ identitiesMassimiliano Spotti