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THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF GLOBALIZATION
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| By: |
Professor Dr Jan Blommaert |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£162.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0511845308 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780511845307 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 June, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact |
| Description: |
In this book Jan Blommaert discusses the changes in human language in an age of globalization. |
| Synopsis: |
Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic communication. In The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Jan Blommaert constructs a theory of changing language in a changing society, reconsidering locality, repertoires, competence, history and sociolinguistic inequality. |
| Illustrations: |
26 b/w illus. 1 table |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |