Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes

Chronicles of Complexity

AvJan Blommaert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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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 complex histories of a place. The book can be read in many ways: as a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of linguistic landscape; as one of the first monographs which addresses the sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-21
Mått:148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt:309 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Antal sidor:127
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781783090402

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Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center for the Study of Superdiversity, Tilburg University (Netherlands) and Professor of Applied Linguistics, Center for Diversity and Learning, Ghent University (Belgium). His publications include Discourse: A Critical Introduction (CUP, 2005), The Sociolinguistics of Globalization (CUP, 2010) and Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide (Multilingual Matters, 2010).

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Jan Blommaert offers a sweeping tour of the complex geographies of contemporary sociolinguistics. Effortlessly combining erudition with accessibility, he maps a new terrain for linguistic landscapes through the deeper contours of ethnography; all of which is grounded in the intimate, culturally diverse histories of his own backyard. This, argues Blommaert, is how sociolinguists should be looking to untether themselves from the stability and predictability of synchronic analysis and seeking instead to live (and research) in the moment.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: New Sociolinguistic Landscapes2. Historical Bodies and Historical Space3. Semiotic and Spatial Scope4. Signs, Practices, People5. Change and Transformation6. The Vatican of the Diaspora7. Conclusion: The Order of Superdiversity