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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154925303321

Titolo

Engaging Superdiversity : Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices / / Karel Arnaut, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Massimiliano Spotti, Jan Blommaert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-78309-681-0

1-78309-680-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 pages)

Collana

Encounters

Disciplina

306.44/6

Soggetti

Multilingualism - Social aspects

Languages in contact

Language and language - Variation

Space and time in language

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Engaging Superdiversity: The Poiesis-Infrastructures Nexus and Language Practices in Combinatorial Spaces -- 2. Superdiverse Times and Places: Media, Mobility, Conjunctures and Structures of Feeling -- 3. Chronotopes, Scales and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society -- 4. ‘Taking up Speech’ in an Endangered Language: Bilingual Discourse in a Heritage Language Classroom -- 5. Rye Bread for Lunch, Lasagne for Breakfast: Enregisterment, Classrooms and National Food Norms in Superdiversity -- 6. ‘You Black Black’: Polycentric Norms for the Use of Terms Associated with Ethnicity -- 7. Social Status Relations and Enregisterment: Integrated Speech in Copenhagen -- 8. Languaging and Normativity on Facebook -- 9. Magic Marketing: Performing Grassroots Literacy -- 10. Superdiversity and a London Multilingual Call Centre -- 11. Superdiversity From Within: The Case of Ethnicity in Indonesia -- 12. ‘Designer Immigrant’ Students in



Singapore: Challenges for Linguistic Human Rights in a Globalising World -- 13. Citizenship, Securitization and Suspicion in UK ESOL Policy -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the fruition of five years’ work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary research into the potential and the limits of human cultural creativity and societal renewal under conditions of increasing and complexifying global connectivity. Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.