The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
by Jan BlommaertEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-05-24
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization in the Department of Language and Culture Studies at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. ix |
| Series editor's foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvi |
| A critical sociolinguistics of globalization | p. 1 |
| The challenge | p. 1 |
| Two paradigms | p. 4 |
| Globalization, super-diversity and multilingualism | p. 6 |
| The start of a tradition | p. 13 |
| The challenge again | p. 20 |
| A messy new marketplace | p. 28 |
| Nina's derrière | p. 29 |
| Sociolinguistic scales | p. 32 |
| Orders of indexicality | p. 37 |
| Polycentricity | p. 39 |
| A sociolinguistics of mobile resources | p. 41 |
| Selling accent | p. 47 |
| Conclusion | p. 61 |
| Locality, the periphery and images of the world | p. 63 |
| Writing locality: a globalized Tanzanian novel | p. 64 |
| Locality and the periphery | p. 78 |
| The norms of the periphery | p. 80 |
| Images from the periphery | p. 101 |
| Repertoires and competence | p. 102 |
| Truncated repertoires | p. 103 |
| Globalized genres of fraud | p. 106 |
| A world of resources | p. 133 |
| Language, globalization and history | p. 137 |
| Historical concepts | p. 137 |
| The worlds of golf | p. 140 |
| Long and short histories | p. 144 |
| The chaotic shop | p. 148 |
| Conclusion | p. 151 |
| Old and new inequalities | p. 153 |
| Globalization, the state and inequality | p. 153 |
| Language, asylum and the national order | p. 154 |
| Mainstreaming the migrant learner | p. 173 |
| The end of the state and inequality? | p. 178 |
| Reflections | p. 180 |
| Sketch of a road map | p. 180 |
| English in the periphery: imperialism revisited | p. 182 |
| Conclusions | p. 196 |
| Notes | p. 199 |
| References | p. 202 |
| Index | p. 209 |
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