UID:
edocfu_9958909717202883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781783090419
Series Statement:
Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Content:
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.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface and Acknowledgments /
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Series Editors’ Preface /
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1. Introduction: New Sociolinguistic Landscapes --
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2. Historical Bodies and Historical Space --
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3. Semiotic and Spatial Scope --
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4. Signs, Practices, People --
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5. Change and Transformation --
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6. The Vatican of the Diaspora --
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7. Conclusion: The Order of Superdiversity --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.21832/9781783090419
URL:
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783090419
