LEADER 03633nam 22005051 450 001 9910346036703321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-350-05520-4 010 $a1-350-05522-0 010 $a1-350-05521-2 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350055223 035 $a(CKB)4100000005117284 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5394334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6158842 035 $a(OCoLC)1008768172 035 $a(UkLoBP)bpp09261991 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92720 035 $a(PPN)232278539 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09261991 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005117284 100 $a20180531d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDurkheim and the Internet $eon sociolinguistics and the sociological imagination /$fJan Blommaert 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (137 pages) $ccolor illustrations 311 $a1-350-05519-0 311 $a1-350-05518-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSociolinguists as sociologists -- Durkheim's social fact -- Sociolinguistics and the social fact: avec Durkheim -- What Durkheim could not have known: apre?s Durkheim -- The sociological re-imagination. 330 $aThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan Blommaert uses contemporary sociolinguistic insights to develop a new sociological imagination, exploring how we construct and operate in online spaces, and what the implications of this are for offline social practice. Taking Émile Durkheim?s concept of the ?social fact? (social behaviours that we all undertake under the influence of the society we live in) as the point of departure, he first demonstrates how the facts of language and social interaction can be used as conclusive refutations of individualistic theories of society such as 'Rational Choice'. Next, he engages with theorizing the post-Durkheimian social world in which we currently live. This new social world operates 'offline' as well as 'online' and is characterized by 'vernacular globalization', Arjun Appadurai?s term to summarise the ways that larger processes of modernity are locally performed through new electronic media. Blommaert extrapolates from this rich concept to consider how our communication practices might offer a template for thinking about how we operate socially. Above all, he explores the relationship between sociolinguistics and social practice In Durkheim and the Internet, Blommaert proposes new theories of social norms, social action, identity, social groups, integration, social structure and power, all of them animated by a deep understanding of language and social interaction. In drawing on Durkheim and other classical sociologists including Simmel and Goffman, this book is relevant to students and researchers working in sociolinguistics as well as offering a wealth of new insights to scholars in the fields of digital and online communications, social media, sociology, and digital anthropology. 606 $aSociolinguistics 615 0$aSociolinguistics. 676 $a306.44 700 $aBlommaert$b Jan$0221082 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910346036703321 996 $aDurkheim and the Internet$92091142 997 $aUNINA