Jan Blommaert

Gebundenes Buch

The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Dong Jie completed her PhD at Tilburg University in 2009. She is a linguistic anthropologist at the Babylon Center and the Department of Languages and Cultures, Tilburg University. Her publications include Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginnerâ??s Guide (2010, with Jan Blommaert).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780521884068
• ISBN-10: 0521884063
• Artikelnr.: 28109227

Rezensionen

'Theoretically bold, clearly written, and politically engaged. The arguments are illustrated with a host of ingenious examples, drawn from many parts of the world.' James Collins, University at Albany, State University of New York