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 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Series editor's foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. A critical sociolinguistics of globalization
- 1.1. The challenge
- 1.2. Two paradigms
- 1.3. Globalization, super-diversity and multilingualism
- 1.4. The start of a tradition
- 1.5. The challenge again
- 2. A messy new marketplace
- 2.1. Nina's derrière
- 2.2. Sociolinguistic scales
- 2.3. Orders of indexicality
- 2.4. Polycentricity
- 2.5. A sociolinguistics of mobile resources
- 2.6. Selling accent
- 2.7. Conclusion
- 3. Locality, the periphery and images of the world
- 3.1. Writing locality: a globalized Tanzanian novel
- 3.2. Locality and the periphery
- 3.3. The norms of the periphery
- 3.4. Images from the periphery
- 4. Repertoires and competence
- 4.1. Truncated repertoires
- 4.2. Globalized genres of fraud
- 4.3. A world of resources
- 5. Language, globalization and history
- 5.1. Historical concepts
- 5.2. The worlds of golf
- 5.3. Long and short histories
- 5.4. The chaotic shop
- 5.5. Conclusion
- 6. Old and new inequalities
- 6.1. Globalization, the state and inequality
- 6.2. Language, asylum and the national order
- 6.3. Mainstreaming the migrant learner
- 6.4. The end of the state and inequality?
- 7. Reflections
- 7.1. Sketch of a road map
- 7.2. English in the periphery: imperialism revisited
- 7.3. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index