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Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity

Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity

Blommaert, Jan

Paperback

Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies, Book 18

LinguisticsAnthropologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1783090391
ISBN13: 9781783090396
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Aug 21 2013
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.20
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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