Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as
well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of
languages encountered by most people in their daily lives
challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated
population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that
are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and
languages. Further, new media technologies invent communicative
genres, foster hybrid semiotic practices, and spread diversity as
they intensify contact and exchange between peoples who often are
spatially removed and culturally different from each other.
Diversity-even super-diversity-is now the norm. In response, recent
scholarship complicates traditional associations between languages
and social identities, emphasizing the connectedness of
communicative events and practices at different scales and the
embedding of languages within new physical landscapes and mediated
practices. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of
linguistic phenomena and faces the theoretical-methodological
challenges that accounting for such phenomena pose to
socio-cultural linguistics. This book stages the debate on
super-diversity that will be sure to interest societal linguists
and serves as an invaluable reference for academic libraries
specializing in the linguistics field.
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