Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes

Chronicles of Complexity

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Emigration & Immigration, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
Cover of the book Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes by Dr. Jan Blommaert, Channel View Publications
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Author: Dr. Jan Blommaert ISBN: 9781783090426
Publisher: Channel View Publications Publication: August 21, 2013
Imprint: Multilingual Matters Language: English
Author: Dr. Jan Blommaert
ISBN: 9781783090426
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Publication: August 21, 2013
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Language: English

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 sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social life.

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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 contribution to the study of linguistic landscape; as one of the first monographs which addresses the sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social life.

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