Globalization and language in contact : scale, migration and communicative practices /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Continuum, c2009. |
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| Description: | xi, 283 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in sociolinguistics Advances in sociolinguistics. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7977596 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- 1. Introduction: scale, migration and communicative practice
- Part I. Scale and Multilingualism
- 2. Goffman and globalization: frame, footing and scale in migration-connected multilingualism
- 3. Space, scale and accents: constructing migrant identity in Beijing
- 4. A relational understanding of language practice: interacting timespaces in a single ethnographic site
- 5. Immigration in Catalonia: marking territory through language
- Part II. Spatialization, Migration and Identity
- 6. From space to spatialization in narrative studies
- 7. 'Just one day like today': scale and the analysis of space/time orientation in narratives of displacement
- 8. Transnational flows, networks and 'transcultural capital': reflections on researching migrant networks through linguistic ethnography
- 9. 'Either' and 'Both' - the changing concept of living space among Polish post-communist migrants to the United Kingdom
- 10. The spaces of language: the everyday practices of young Somali refugees and asylum seekers
- Part III. Studying Processes and Practices across Time and Space
- 11. 'Canada meets France': recasting identities of Canadianness and Francité through global economic exchanges
- 12. Changing participation in changing practice: uses of language and literacy among Portuguese migrant women in the United Kingdom
- 13. Weighing the scales: recontextualization as horizontal scaling
- Index of authors
- Index of terms
