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Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity

By Jan Blommaert

Book information

Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Year
2013
ISBN
1783090405, 9781783090402
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3991206 bytes)
Series
Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Pages
144\142
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-03-21 23:32:22
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Description

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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