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Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Salsa, Language and Transnationalism

Av Britta Schneider

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What happens in globalised social contexts if people identify with a language that is not traditionally considered to be ‘their’ language? This unique contribution to the field of sociolinguistics scrutinises language ideologies of German and Australian Communities of Practice constituted by Salsa dance and asks what languages symbolise in transnational, non-ethnic cultures. Using ethnographic methodology and a deconstructive approach to language it examines these different Salsa communities and gives insight into the interaction of social discourses from local, national and transnational realms, examining differences, similarities and a simultaneous multiplicity of languages’ symbolic functions. This book will be welcomed by postgraduates, professional sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists as well as scholars of cultural anthropology, sociology and cultural studies who are interested in the development of modernist categories in transnational culture.
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Britta Schneider is Lecturer in the Department for English Language and Literature at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include sociolinguistics of globalisation, language ideology, language policy, epistemology of language and multilingualism, and superdiversity.

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Salsa, Language and Transnationalism is a unique and complex study about the deconstruction of the relationship between language ideologies and a cultural practice in transnational contexts. The novelty of this book lies in the object of study: while most studies have placed the center of attention on certain ethnic/national groups, Britta Schneider focuses on communities based on a Latin or Hispanic cultural practice – salsa dance in Germany and Australia. The research in these transnational salsa communities successfully stays away from the essentialist approach and abstains from the traditional “one-to-one” mapping of language and identity. At the same time, with the use of ethnographic observation and discourse analysis, the author moves beyond the national language discourses and offers an insightful discussion of the co-constitution of societal and cultural discourses and language ideologies in transnational salsa communities.

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