The Sociolinguistics of Globalization ( Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact )

Publication series ：Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

Author： Jan Blommaert

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9780511764158

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521884068

Subject： H0 Linguistics

Keyword：语言学

Language： ENG

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The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

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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.

Chapter

Series editor's foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 A critical sociolinguistics of globalization

1.1 The challenge

1.2 Two paradigms

1.3 Globalization, super-diversity and multilingualism

Super-diversity

Multilingual repertoires and super-diversity

Stratified distribution

1.4 The start of a tradition

1.5 The challenge again

2 A messy new marketplace

2.1 Nina’s derrière

2.2 Sociolinguistic scales

The point of departure: horizontal and vertical metaphors

Scales as semiotized space and time

2.3 Orders of indexicality

2.4 Polycentricity

2.5 A sociolinguistics of mobile resources

Power and mobility

Locked in space: on linguistic rights

2.6 Selling accent

The Internet and the commodification of accent

Global indexicals of success

Discussion

2.7 Conclusion

3 Locality, the periphery and images of the world

3.1 Writing locality: a globalized Tanzanian novel

The invisible enterprises of the patriots

The social semiotics of Tanzanian space

The repatriation of critique

The cultural codes of globalization

3.2 Locality and the periphery

3.3 The norms of the periphery

The field and the issues

The error as terror: deviation and normativity in Wesbank High

Perceptions of the centre

The production of locality

3.4 Images from the periphery

4 Repertoires and competence

4.1 Truncated repertoires

4.2 Globalized genres of fraud

The data: preliminary observations

Knowing your way around the globe: aliases, anonymous providers

Constructing genres

An orrery of errors

Truncated fraud

4.3 A world of resources

5 Language, globalization and history

5.1 Historical concepts

5.2 The worlds of golf

5.3 Long and short histories

5.4 The chaotic shop

5.5 Conclusion

6 Old and new inequalities

6.1 Globalization, the state and inequality

6.2 Language, asylum and the national order

Joseph’s life history

From a strange life to no life

Defying the monoglot ideal

Modernist responses

6.3 Mainstreaming the migrant learner

6.4 The end of the state and inequality?

7 Reflections

7.1 Sketch of a road map

7.2 English in the periphery: imperialism revisited

The Tanzanian paradox

The state in space and time

Fooling around with language

What went wrong?

Discussion

7.3 Conclusions

Notes

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

References

Index

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