Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes - Chronicles of Complexity

Superdiversity has rendered places, groups and practices complex and the usual tools of analysis need rethinking. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, the author investigates his own neighbourhood from a complexity perspective and demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the histories of a place.

About the author

Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and is also affiliated to Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). He is the Director of the Babylon Research Center at Tilburg University.

Product details

• Authors: Blommaert, Dr Jan Blommaert, Jan Blommaert
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2013
• EAN: 9781783090402
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-040-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 217 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 305 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories