The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1. A critical sociolinguistics of globalization; 2. A messy new marketplace; 3. Locality, the periphery and images of the world; 4. Repertoires and competence; 5. Language, globalization, and history; 6. Old and new inequalities; 7. Reflections.

PREFAZIONE

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. In this book Jan Blommaert constructs a theory of changing language in a changing society.

AUTORE

Jan Blommaert is Professor of Linguistic Anthropology in the Department of Language and Culture Studies at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780521710237
• Collana: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Dimensioni: 227 x 11 x 152 mm Ø 380 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 26 b/w illus. 1 table
• Pagine Arabe: 229