Globalization and Language in Contact

Mike Baynham is Professor TESOL in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK; Stef Slembrouck is Professor of English Linguistics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, Ghent University, Belgium; James Collins is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY, Albany, USA

• 1. Introduction: Scale, migration, and communicative practice, J. Collins (State University of New York, USA), S. Slembrouck (Ghent University, Belgium) and M. Baynham (University of Leeds, UK); 2. Space, scale and accents: constructing migrant identity in Beijing, J. K. Dong (University of East London, UK) & J. Blommaert (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and University of London, UK); 3. Goffman and globalisation: Frame, footing and scale in migration-connected multilingualism, J. Collins (State University of New York, USA) and S. Slembrouck (Ghent University, Belgium); 4. The spaces of language: the everyday practices of Somali refugee and asylum seeker young people, G. Valentine (University of Leeds, UK), D. Sporton & K. Bang Nielsen (University of Sheffield, UK); 5. Immigration in Catalonia: marking territory through language, J. Pujolar (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); 6:Either' and 'Both' -- the changing concept of living space among Polish post-communist migrants to the United Kingdom", A. Galasinska & a Kozlowska (University of Wolverhampton, UK); 7:Canada meets France': Recasting identities of Canadianess and Francite through global economic exchanges, G. Budach (University of Southampton, UK).; 8. Changing participation in changing practice: Uses of language and literacy among Portuguese migrant Women in the UK, C. Keating (University of Coimbra, Portugal); 9. A relational understanding of language practice: Interacting Time-Spaces in a single ethnographic site, C. B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada); 10. Transnational flows, networks and 'franscultural capital': Reflections on researching migrant networks through linguistic ethnography, U. H. Meinhof (University of Southampton, UK); 11.1just one day like today': the notion of scale and the analysis of space time orientation in narratives of displacement, M. Baynham (University of Leeds, UK); 12. Weighing the scales: Recontextualisation as horizontal scaling, C. Kell (University of Waikato, NZ); 13. From space to spatialization in narrative studies, A. De Fina (Georgetown University, USA); Index.