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A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity,
this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the
issues and state-of-the-art research papers organized around three
themes: Sketching the paradigm, Sociolinguistic complexity,
Policing complexity. The focus is to show how complexity rather
than plurality can serve as a lens through which an equally vast
range of topics, sites, and issues can be tied together.
Superdiversity captures the acceleration and intensification of
processes of social 'mixing' and 'fragmentation' since the early
1990s, as an outcome of two different but related processes: new
post-Cold War migration flows, and the advent and spread of the
Internet and mobile technologies. The confluence of these forces
have created entirely new sociolinguistic environments, leading to
research in the past decade that has brought a mixture of new
empirical terrain-extreme diversity in language and literacy
resources, complex repertoires and practices of participants in
interaction-and conceptual challenges. Language and Superdiversity
is a landmark volume bringing together the work of the scholars and
researchers who spearhead the development of the sociolinguistics
of superdiversity.
A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity,
this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the
issues and state-of-the-art research papers organized around three
themes: Sketching the paradigm, Sociolinguistic complexity,
Policing complexity. The focus is to show how complexity rather
than plurality can serve as a lens through which an equally vast
range of topics, sites, and issues can be tied together.
Superdiversity captures the acceleration and intensification of
processes of social 'mixing' and 'fragmentation' since the early
1990s, as an outcome of two different but related processes: new
post-Cold War migration flows, and the advent and spread of the
Internet and mobile technologies. The confluence of these forces
have created entirely new sociolinguistic environments, leading to
research in the past decade that has brought a mixture of new
empirical terrain-extreme diversity in language and literacy
resources, complex repertoires and practices of participants in
interaction-and conceptual challenges. Language and Superdiversity
is a landmark volume bringing together the work of the scholars and
researchers who spearhead the development of the sociolinguistics
of superdiversity.
This book is the fruition of five years' work in exploring the idea
of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic
superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of
post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary
research into the potential and the limits of human cultural
creativity and societal renewal under conditions of increasing and
complexifying global connectivity. Through case studies of language
practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and
multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile
spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of
superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it
as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.
This book is the fruition of five years' work in exploring the idea
of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic
superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of
post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary
research into the potential and the limits of human cultural
creativity and societal renewal under conditions of increasing and
complexifying global connectivity. Through case studies of language
practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and
multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile
spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of
superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it
as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.
What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in
nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part
of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller
conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is
currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this theme
and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements. The
policy proposals for civic integration have so far been conducted
almost entirely at a national level, and with little regard for the
experiences of a countries with long traditions of migration, such
as the USA, Canada, the UK or Australia. At the same time, EU
enlargment and the ongoing rise in the rate of migration into and
across Europe suggest that these issues will continue to grow in
importance. This book raises the level of discussion to take
account of international developments and to promote a more
coherent and soundly based debate. It will appeal to researchers
and academics working in sociolinguistics and language education,
as well as those working on language policy.
This is an in depth analysis of the linguistic issues surrounding
civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the
world. What is required to achieve civic integration and
citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language
testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to
develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language
testing than is currently available, to enable widespread
discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and
cultural requirements. The policy proposals for civic integration
have so far been conducted almost entirely at a national level, and
with little regard for the experiences of countries with long
traditions of migration, such as the USA, Canada, the UK or
Australia. At the same time, EU enlargement and the ongoing rise in
the rate of migration into and across Europe suggest that these
issues will continue to grow in importance. This book raises the
level of discussion to take account of international developments
and to promote a more coherent and soundly based debate. It will
appeal to researchers and academics working in sociolinguistics and
language education, as well as those working on language policy.
"The Advances in Sociolinguistics" series seeks to provide a
snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics
and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and
other domains of study concerned with the role of language in
society.
This Oxford Handbook challenges basic concepts that have informed
the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. In
27 chapters, the book challenges the modernist positivist
perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech
communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the
ultimate authority. Instead, it offers a critical poststructuralist
perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to
the emergence of dominant sociolinguistic concepts and develops new
theoretical and methodological tools that challenge these dominant
concepts. The contributors to this volume take this critical
poststructuralist perspective as a starting point for engaging in
explorations of a range of sociolinguistic topics including
language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism,
language policy, linguistic landscapes and multimodality. Each of
the contributors provides a critical overview of the limits of
modernist positivist perspectives on their topic and offer ways of
theorizing and researching their topic in ways that are aligned
with a critical poststructuralist perspective. The book also
provides a global perspective on these issues with contributors
focused on North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Africa.
Together, the interdisciplinary and global contributions reveal the
limits of conventional approaches to sociolinguistics and offer a
glimpse into directions for the future of the field.
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