Engaging Superdiversity: Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices

✍ Scribed by Karel Arnaut, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Massimiliano Spotti, Jan Blommaert

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 333
Series: Encounters vol. 7
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
1 Engaging Superdiversity: The Poiesis-Infrastructures Nexus and Language Practices in Combinatorial Spaces
2 Superdiverse Times and Places: Media, Mobility, Conjunctures and Structures of Feeling
3 Chronotopes, Scales and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society
Classrooms and Schools
4 ‘Taking up Speech’ in an Endangered Language: Bilingual Discourse in a Heritage Language Classroom
5 Rye Bread for Lunch, Lasagne for Breakfast: Enregisterment, Classrooms and National Food Norms in Superdiversity
Youth Contact Zones
6 ‘You Black Black’: Polycentric Norms for the Use of Terms Associated with Ethnicity
7 Social Status Relations and Enregisterment: Integrated Speech in Copenhagen
8 Languaging and Normativity on Facebook
Mercantile Spaces
9 Magic Marketing: Performing Grassroots Literacy
10 Superdiversity and a London Multilingual Call Centre
Nation-states
11 Superdiversity From Within: The Case of Ethnicity in Indonesia
12 ‘Designer Immigrant’ Students in Singapore: Challenges for Linguistic Human Rights in a Globalising World
13 Citizenship, Securitization and Suspicion in UK ESOL Policy
Index

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