Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes

Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes: chronicles of complexity

by Blommaert, Jan

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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 …

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  • Full title :Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes : chronicles of complexity / Jan Blommaert.

Summary

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Multilingual Matters
  • Place of Publication:Bristol
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 127 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781783090419, 1783090413, 1299831680, 9781299831681, 9781783090426, 1783090421
  • oclc:ocn861529160
  • LC Classification:P115.5.B4
  • Dewey Decimal:306.44/609493222

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Preface; 1 Introduction: New Sociolinguistic Landscapes; 2 Historical Bodies and Historical Space; 3 Semiotic and Spatial Scope; 4 Signs, Practices, People; 5 Change and Transformation; 6 The Vatican of the Diaspora; 7 Conclusion: The Order of Superdiversity; References; Index.

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Subjects

Antwerp (Belgium) -- Languages Belgium -- Antwerp Bilingualism & multilingualism City dwellers -- Language. -- Belgium Ethnicité -- Belgique Ethnicity Ethnicity -- Belgium Language and languages Languages in contact Languages in contact -- Belgium Langues en contact -- Belgique Linguistic minorities Linguistic minorities -- Belgium Migration, immigration & emigration Minorités linguistiques -- Belgique Multilingualism Multilingualism -- Belgium Multilinguisme -- Belgique POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology

Writers

Blommaert, Jan

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