Power, Mobility and Voice : Jan Blommaert's Unfinished Business.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnaut, Karel.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2026.

Summary:

Reflecting on and advancing Jan Blommaert's work on language and power, this edited volume explores chronotopes, language ideologies, normativities in online and offline spaces, and voice as agency. It uses Blommaert's frameworks as a starting point to approach the challenges of a changing social world and expands his work across varied contexts.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/ARNAUT2646

Dedication

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Bourdieu as Inspiration: Poetry, Voice and Articulate Noise

The Bachelors' Ball

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Chapter 1: Power, Mobility and Voice - An Introduction

1.1 Jan Blommaert's Unfinished Business: Concepts as Open Invitations

1.2 Chronotopes: Spatiotemporal Contextualisation in Action

1.3 The Ethnolinguistic Assumption in the Production of Language Ideologies

1.4 Normativities in Complex Online-Offline Spaces

1.5 Voice Comes in Moments

1.6 Unfinished Business between the Poetics and Politics of 'Free Speech'

Chapter 2: Living with the Chronotope of War: Sri Lankan Tamil Diasporans in London

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Accepting and Extending the Chronotope of War: Ram

2.3 Resisting the War Chronotope: Abilash

2.4 Differences in the Balance between Chronotope and Narrative Detail

2.5 Chronotope as a Term in Sociolinguistic Analysis

Notes

Chapter 3: Danmu Videos and Chronotopicity: An Ethnography of Video-Sharing Websites

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Chronotopicity, Chronotopic Identities and Online Chronotopes

3.3 Danmu Chronotopicity

3.3.1 Multiple online and offline chronotopes

3.3.2 The shorter and longer histories

3.3.3 Light-and-thick identities and the making of community

3.5 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Memes and Tilburg: Chronotopes, Identity Work and Place-Making on @tilburgmeme

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Background

4.3 The Instagram Account @tilburgmeme

4.4 Memes

4.5 Performing an Authentic Tilburger

4.6 Data and Approach

4.7 Analysis.

4.8 Discussion and Conclusion

Chapter 5: Language Diversity, Policy and Practice: Five Case Studies

5.1 Introduction

5.2 A New Swahili Register in Tanzania

5.3 Unity through Diversity in Eritrea

5.4 Language Policy and Language Attitudes in Wales

5.5 Orthography and Adult Literacy in Timor-Leste

5.6 Home Languages in Suriname

5.7 Conclusion

Chapter 6: Ethnolinguistic Cornering and the Resistance of Language Identities: Representations of an Urban Youth Style in a Radio Program

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Identity, Semiotic Resources and Authenticity

6.3 The Ethnolinguistic Assumption

6.4 Identity Ascriptions Based on Ethnolinguistic Assumptions

6.5 Ethnolinguistic Cornering

6.6 Case

6.7 Conclusion

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Chapter 7: Language Ideological Disqualifications in a Dutch as a Second Language Classroom for Newly Arrived Migrants

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Language Ideologies at Play in the 'Waiting Room' of Globalisation

7.3 Approaching an Asylum-Seeking Centre through Sociolinguistic Ethnography

7.4 The Sociocultural Setting of the Study: Miss Frida's Classroom

7.5 Language Disqualification in a Dutch as a Second Language Classroom

7.5.1 Miss Frida's views about her students' languages

7.6 Some Final Considerations

Chapter 8: Language, Identity and Conflicted Heritage: Two Case Studies from Cyprus

Introduction

8.1 Heritage, Contestations and Conflict: A View from Critical Heritage Studies

8.2 Case Study 1: Teaching Turkish to Greek-Cypriots

8.2.1 Discursive orientations in policymaking

8.2.2 Discursive orientations and identity practices in teaching and learning

8.2.3 Degrees of fluency

8.3 Case Study 2: Turkish-Cypriot Romeika Speakers

8.3.1 Context.

8.3.2 Living with the conflicted heritage: Speaking the language of the other

8.3.3 Negotiating their 'conflicted' heritage

8.4 Discussion and Conclusions

Chapter 9: Migrants' Communicative Practices in Polycentric Spaces: Anomie, Stability and Change

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Globalization and Mobility as Pivots of a New Approach to Sociolinguistics

9.3 Mobility, Super-Diversity and the Study of Migrant and Mobile People

9.4 Digital Technologies, Anomie and the Dynamics between Change and Stability

9.5 Methodological Considerations: Participants and Data

9.6 Polycentricity and Anomie on Facebook

9.7 Conclusions

Chapter 10: The Digital Turn in Asylum Determination through the Lens of Superdiversity

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Superdiversity and Digitalization

10.3 Search Engines: Denotation in a Superdiverse Environment

10.4 Case 1. Senza Confine, Roma, 20 May 2009

10.5 Case 2. Belgian Asylum Courts (Maryns, 2005: 280-281)

10.6 Case 3. Commissione Territoriale, Roma, 26 May 2009

10.7 Conclusions

Chapter 11: The Ideology of Digital Platforms: The Right Stuff

11.1 Ideology and Platforms

11.2 The Digital Ideological Apparatus

11.3 Analyzing Digital Platforms as Ideological Infrastructures

11.4 Step 1: Communicating about The Right Stuff

11.5 Framing The Right Stuff

11.6 The Right Stuff as a Social Media Assemblage

11.7 Step 2: The Ideology of Devices and Interfaces

11.8 Pushing the Religious Nuclear Heterosexual Family through Code

11.9 Striking Similarities on the Deepest Level?

11.10 In Conclusion: Layered Simultaneity and the Digital Ideological Apparatus

Chapter 12: (Un)Complicating Context: The Case of Formatted Storytelling on Social Media.

12.1 Introduction: In Search of Context Online - Blommaert's Contribution

12.2 Technography as a Method for the Study of Formatting

12.2.1 Multiple data-points

12.2.2 Story-formatting in technography

12.3 Analysing Stories as Multimodal Activities

12.4 Story-Formatting and/as Sharing-Life-in-the-Moment

12.4.1 Formatting the present tense, moment-based story

12.4.2 Formatting inter-modal densities

12.5 The Power of Formatting: Repurposing and Reconfiguring Formats

12.6 Conclusion

Chapter 13: Counterspeech: Resisting Hate on Social Media

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Theoretical Framework

13.2.1 Counterspeech

13.2.2 Identities at stake

13.3 Aims, Approach and Data

13.3.1 Aims and approach

13.3.2 Data: 'I respond to hate comments' videos

13.4 Analysis

13.4.1 Refusals to engage with hate comments

13.4.2 Questioning hate comments

13.4.3 Using humour to discredit hate comments

13.4.4 Analytic responses to hate comments

13.4.5 Denouncing hate comments

13.4.6 Educating the haters

13.5 Conclusion

13.16 Epilogue

Chapter 14: Representing the Voices of Those Living with Seawater Incursion in Indonesia

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Ideologies of Voice and Represented Speech

14.3 Tidal Flooding in Indonesia

14.4 Ideologizing Indonesian Voices

14.5 Data Collection and Kendal Regency

14.6 Representing Voices in Times of Seawater Inundation

14.7 Conclusion

Chapter 15: 'It Makes Sense': Credibility and Impartiality in an Interpreter-Mediated Asylum Case in Court

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Theoretical Background

15.2.1 Norms of interpreting: Creating understanding, mediating coherence, representing credibility

15.2.2 Interpreter impartiality in legal processes.

15.3 The Case of the Iranian Couple

15.4 Critical Sociolinguistics and Courtroom Ethnography

15.4.1 The local relevance of impartiality

15.4.2 Giving advice to defendants

15.4.3 Creating sense for the court

15.5 Conclusion

Chapter 16: Indirect Communication: Seeking Therapy and Avoiding Stigmatization

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Meta-Prosody as Indirect Communication

16.3 Digital Technology in Doctor-Patient Communication

16.4 Semiotic Play and Bystander Participation: A Case Study from Kenya

16.5 Mobile Health

16.6 Conclusion

Chapter 17: Abductions: Unpacking Orders, Mobilities and Struggles through Mediating (Text-)Objects

17.1 Moving with Text-Objects

17.2 Blommaert Meets Ginzburg in Theory (and Method)

17.3 Four (Text-)Objects and Their Abductors

17.3.1 Case 1. The homeless' wristbands in Brussels' refugee crisis regime (Shila Anaraki)1​

17.3.1.1 (Dis)Orders

17.3.1.2 Wristbands and the 'national machinery'

17.3.1.3 Struggling on

17.3.2 Case 2. The 'Annex' in the Belgian border regime (Elsemieke Van Osch)​​

17.3.2.1 First moment: The Annex in the mobility/immobility nexus

17.3.2.2 Second moment: Struggles in the online-offline nexus

17.3.3 Case 3. The seasonal workers' Picking Card in Belgium's present-day plantation regime (Carolien Lubberhuizen)​​​

17.3.3.1 The online-offline ordering of precarious seasonal labour

17.3.3.2 Stuck in (un)seasonal mobility

17.3.4 Case 4. The newcomer's Portfolio and the Roadmap to language cum job acquisition (Hannelore Hooft)​​

17.4. In Lieu of a Conclusion. The Power of Abductions: Heuristic, Descriptive and Analytical

Chapter 18: Complexity and the Total Semiotic Fact: Corner Shop Chronicles

18.1 Insisting on Complexity.

18.2 SEMIOSIS at a Corner Store.

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ISBN:

1-83668-265-4

OCLC:

1587902218