Sociolinguistics of Globalization

Name: Sociolinguistics of Globalization
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ISBN: 9780521710237

ISBN-10: 0521710235

ISBN-13: 9780521710237

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jan Blommaert

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List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 229
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Jan Blommaert is Professor of African Linguistics and Sociolinguistics and head of the Department of African Languages and Cultures at Ghent University.



List of illustrations


Series editor's foreword


Preface


Acknowledgements



A critical sociolinguistics of globalization



The challenge



Two paradigms



Globalization, super-diversity and multilingualism



The start of a tradition



The challenge again



A messy new marketplace



Nina's derriï¿½re



Sociolinguistic scales



Orders of indexicality



Polycentricity



A sociolinguistics of mobile resources



Selling accent



Conclusion



Locality, the periphery and images of the world



Writing locality: a globalized Tanzanian novel



Locality and the periphery



The norms of the periphery



Images from the periphery



Repertoires and competence



Truncated repertoires



Globalized genres of fraud



A world of resources



Language, globalization and history



Historical concepts



The worlds of golf



Long and short histories



The chaotic shop



Conclusion



Old and new inequalities



Globalization, the state and inequality



Language, asylum and the national order



Mainstreaming the migrant learner



The end of the state and inequality?



Reflections



Sketch of a road map



English in the periphery: imperialism revisited



Conclusions


Notes


References


Index