The sociolinguistics of globalization /
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| Author / Creator: | Blommaert, Jan. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xvi, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge approaches to language contact Cambridge approaches to language contact. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8063843 |
| Summary: | Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic communication. In The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Jan Blommaert constructs a theory of changing language in a changing society, reconsidering locality, repertoires, competence, history and sociolinguistic inequality. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521884068 0521884063 9780521710237 0521710235 |