Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization

Tyler Andrew Barrett is an academic who teaches in the Division of Continuing Education at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His research interests include the sociolinguistics of globalization, language ideology, language policy and translingualism.Sender Dovchin is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, Curtin University, Australia. Her research interests include translingualism, the sociolinguistics of globalization, critical applied linguistics and bi/multilingualism.

This is a must-read collection for anybody searching for novel ideas in the field of the sociolinguistics of globalisation. This timely and exceptional book recognises diversity both as a challenge and as an opportunity. It focuses on the importance of everyday language practices, as well as other non-linguistic, semiotic and spatial relations. A highly compelling volume which takes a critical inquiry approach to post-multilingual diversity.

• Tyler Barrett and Sender Dovchin: Foreword Chapter 1. Shaila Sultana: Linguistic and Multi-Modal Resources within the Local-Global Interface of the Virtual Space: Critically Aware Youths in BangladeshChapter 2. Dejan Ivković, Violetta Cupial, Jamie Arfin and Tiziana Ceccato: Linguascaping the City: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Linguistic Placemaking of Toronto’s Chinatown and Kensington Market NeighbourhoodsChapter 3. Dariush Izadi: “That's My Husband’s Sees the Smoke on This Card Bill He Doesn’t like Me Smoking” Service Interactions in Persian Shops in SydneyChapter 4. Kara Fleming: Language, Scale, and Ideologies of the National in KazakhstanChapter 5. Sender Dovchin: The Politics of Injustice in Translingualism: Linguistic DiscriminationChapter 6. Jerry Won Lee: Translingualism as Resistance Against What and for Whom?Chapter 7. Tyler Barrett: Transgrammaring Bilinguals and ‘Ordinary’ English in Japanese Ethnic ChurchscapesChapter 8. Kim Rockell: The Coding Catastrophe: Translingualism and Noh in the Japanese Computer Science EFL Classroom