Bibliograph

Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes, chronicles of complexity, Jan Blommaert

Type

Label

Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes, chronicles of complexity, Jan Blommaert

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jan Blommaert

Series statement

Critical Language and Literacy Studies, 18

Sub title

chronicles of complexity

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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