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Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives

Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives

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Series: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguisti

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1626164223
ISBN13: 9781626164222
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: Apr 1 2017
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and languages. Further, new media technologies invent communicative genres, foster hybrid semiotic practices, and spread diversity as they intensify contact and exchange between peoples who often are spatially removed and culturally different from each other. Diversity-even super-diversity-is now the norm.

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