The Sociolinguistics of Globalization (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 4/8/2010
EAN 9780521884068, ISBN10: 0521884063
Hardcover, 230 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
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.
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.
'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