Engaging Superdiversity - Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices

Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.

About the author

Karel Arnaut is Associate Professor and Research Coordinator at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC), Leuven University, Belgium.
Martha Sif Karrebæk is Associate Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Massimiliano Spotti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Deputy Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Jan Blommaert is Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Summary

Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Karel Arnaut
• Assisted by: Karel Arnaut (Editor), Jan Blommaert (Editor), Martha Sif Karreb?k (Editor), Martha Sif Karrebæk (Editor), Martha Sif Karrebk (Editor), Massimiliano Spotti (Editor)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781783096794
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-679-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 580 g
• Series: Encounters; Encounters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories