The sociolinguistics of globalization / Jan Blommaert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blommaert, Jan, author.

Series:

Cambridge approaches to language contact.

Cambridge approaches to language contact

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Globalization.

Language and languages.

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-84833-1

1-107-21136-0

1-282-65305-9

9786612653056

0-511-84530-8

0-511-76946-6

0-511-77031-6

0-511-76723-4

0-511-76584-3

0-511-76862-1

OCLC:

666900612