The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

By:

Jan Blommaert

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

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

Release date Australia

April 8th, 2010

Author

Jan Blommaert

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Tables, unspecified; 24 Halftones, unspecified; 2 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

230

Series

Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

Dimensions

155x239x16

ISBN-13

9780521884068

Product ID

4277502

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