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ETHNOGRAPHY, SUPERDIVERSITY AND LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES
CHRONICLES OF COMPLEXITY |
| By: |
Jan Blommaert |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£79.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1783090405 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781783090402 |
| Publisher: |
CHANNEL VIEW PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
21 August, 2013 |
| Series: |
Critical Language and Literacy Studies |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Superdiversity has rendered places, groups and practices complex and the usual tools of analysis need rethinking. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, the author investigates his own neighbourhood from a complexity perspective and demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the histories of a place. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Multilingual Matters |
| Returns: |
Returnable |