The sociolinguistics of globalization

Author(s)

• Blommaert, Jan

Bibliographic Information

The sociolinguistics of globalization

Jan Blommaert

（Cambridge approaches to language contact）

Cambridge University Press, 2010

• : pbk
• : hbk

Note

"References": p. 202-208

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 1. A critical sociolinguistics of globalization
• 2. A messy new marketplace
• 3. Locality, the periphery and images of the world
• 4. Repertoires and competence
• 5. Language, globalization, and history
• 6. Old and new inequalities
• 7. Reflections.

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Details

• NCID: BB01978650
• ISBN:
  • 9780521710237
  • 9780521884068
• LCCN: 2009050366
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 213 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 306.44
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Globalization
  • LCSH : Languages in contact
  • LCSH : Linguistic change
  • LCSH : Sociolinguistics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA53860838