Full Description
Builds on the profound and challenging legacy of linguist Jan Blommaert, one of the most important thinkers in contemporary sociolinguistics, who dismantled the theoretical and ideological orthodoxies of his time.
This volume honours the influential work of Jan Blommaert, furthering his critical and constructive engagement with power dynamics across numerous domains. It takes Blommaert's work as a starting point to approach the challenges of a changing social world, using his frameworks to explore new contexts and applying new methodologies to established fields of study.
The chapter authors - Jan's colleagues, students and others inspired by his work - explore four themes of his scholarly legacy, expanding on his work and looking to new contexts. They elaborate on the concept of chronotopes, explore ideologies of language diversity and inequality, address normativities in complex online and offline spaces, and analyse voice as agency in time and space.
Spanning a wide range of academic disciplines and contexts, they share a core commitment to analysing language in relation to society and power, arguably the most pressing legacy of Blommaert's work.
This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.
Contents
Adrian Blackledge: Preface: A Poetic Preface: Bourdieu as Inspiration: Poetry, Voice and Articulate Noise
Chapter 1. Karel Arnaut, Ico Maly, Max Spotti and David Parkin: Power, Mobility and Voice: An Introduction
Part 1: Chronotopes
Chapter 2. Ben Rampton and Lavanya Sankaran: Living with the Chronotope of War: Sri Lankan Tamil Diasporans in London
Chapter 3. Jie Dong: Danmu Videos and Chronotopicity: An Ethnography of Online Communication on Video-Sharing Websites
Chapter 4. Jos Swanenberg and Inge Beekmans: Memes and Tilburg: Chronotopes, Identity Work and Place-Making on @Tilburgmeme
Part 2: Language Ideologies, Diversity and Inequality
Chapter 5. Sjaak Kroon: Language Diversity, Policy and Practice: Five Case Studies
Chapter 6. Janus Spindler Møller: Ethnolinguistic Cornering and the Resistance of Language Identities: Representations of an Urban Youth Style in A Radio Program
Chapter 7. Max Spotti: 'Niet Miep Miep Maar Piep Piep': Ideological Disqualification at Play in A Dutch L2 Classroom for Asylum Seekers
Chapter 8. Dina Charalambous and Elena Ioannidou: Language, Identity and Conflicted Heritage: Two Case Studies from Cyprus
Part 3: Normativities in Complex Spaces
Chapter 9. Anna De Fina and Giuseppe Paternostro: Migrants' Communicative Practices in Polycentric Spaces: Anomie, Stability and Change
Chapter 10. Marco Jacquemet: The Digital Turn in Asylum Determination
Chapter 11. Ico Maly and Inge Beekmans: The Ideology of Digital Platforms: The Right Stuff
Chapter 12. Alexandra Georgakopoulou: (Un)Complicating Context: The Case of Formatted Storytelling on Social Media
Chapter 13. Sirpa Leppänen and Elina Westinen: Counterspeech: Resisting Hate on Social Media
Part 4: Voice and Agency in Time/Moments
Chapter 14. Zane Goebel and Udiana Puspa Dewi: Representing the Voices of Those Living with Seawater Incursion in Indonesia
Chapter 15. Martha Sif Karrebæk, Narges Ghandchi and Marta Kirilova: 'It Makes Sense': Credibility and Impartiality in an Interpreter-Mediated Asylum Case in Court
Chapter 16. David Parkin: Indirect Communication in Seeking Therapy and Avoiding Stigmatization
Chapter 17. Karel Arnaut, Shila Hadji Heydari Anaraki, Elsemieke Van Osch, Hannelore Hooft and Carolien Lubberhuizen: Abductions: Unpacking Orders, Mobility and Struggles Through (Text-)Objects
Chapter 18. Alastair Pennycook: Complexity and the Total Semiotic Fact: Corner Shop Chronicles
Chapter 19. Jef Verschueren: Postscript: The Pragmatics of 'Free Speech'
