Full Description
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.
Contents
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
Karel Arnaut , Jan Blommaert, Ben Rampton, and Massimiliano Spotti
Part 1: Sketching the paradigm
2. Language and superdiversity
Jan Blommaert and Ben Rampton
3. Super-diversity: Elements of an emerging perspective
Karel Arnaut
4. From multilingual classification to translingual ontology: A turning point
David Parkin
Part II: Sociolinguistic complexity
5. Drilling down to the grain in superdiversity
Ben Rampton
6. Buffalaxing the other: Superdiversity in action on YouTube
Sirpa Leppänen and Ari Häkkinen
7. Polylanguaging in super-diversity
Jens Normann Jørgensen, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Lian Malai Madsen, and Janus Spindler Møller
8. 'A typical gentleman': Metapragmatic stereotypes as systems of distinction
Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese
9. Mobility, voice, and symbolic restratification: An ethnography of 'elite migrants' in urban China
Jie Dong
Part III: Policing complexity
10. Ethnographic linguistic landscape analysis and social change: A case study
Jan Blommaert and Ico Maly
11. Superdiversity on the Internet: A case from China
Piia Varis and Xuan Wang
12. Translating global experience into institutional models of competency: Linguistic inequalities in the job interview
Celia Roberts
13. Sociolinguistic shibboleths at the institutional gate: Language, origin and the construction of asylum seekers' identities
Massimiliano Spotti
