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Chineses In The Diaspora - Multilingual Practices And Chinese Identity In Los Angeles

by Feiyang Tian

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 This book analyzes the multilingual and multidialectal practices of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, describing the interaction of distinct Chineses in a diasporic setting. It demonstrates how ethnolinguistic repertoires are used to form localized Chinese identities and world Chineses with different degrees of divergence from standard Putonghua.
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Power, Mobility And Voice - Jan Blommaert'S Unfinished Business

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 Reflecting on and advancing Jan Blommaertâ€™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 Blommaertâ€™s frameworks as a starting point to approach the challenges of a changing social world and expands his work across varied contexts.
Untold Autoethnographic Stories Of (In)Justice, Teaching And Scholarship

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 The voices in this book raise questions about the relationalities and entanglements of applied linguists in a troubled world. They are the personal stories that are sometimes hidden behind and within more conventional teaching, research and scholarship, however iconoclastic and unconventional the endeavors themselves.
Untold Autoethnographic Stories Of (In)Justice, Teaching And Scholarship

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 The voices in this book raise questions about the relationalities and entanglements of applied linguists in a troubled world. They are the personal stories that are sometimes hidden behind and within more conventional teaching, research and scholarship, however iconoclastic and unconventional the endeavors themselves.
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Negotiating Identities, Language And Migration In Global London - Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces

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 This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing together case studies of diverse migrant communities.
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Linguistic Practice In Changing Conditions

by Ben Rampton

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 This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ahead.
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Exploring (Im)Mobilities - Language Practices, Discourses And Imaginaries

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 The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to addressÂ the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
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Multilingualism, (Im)Mobilities And Spaces Of Belonging

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 The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity and power. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation.
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Critical Inquiries In The Sociolinguistics Of Globalization

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 This book seeks to examine the notions of â€˜linguistic diversityâ€™ and â€˜hybridityâ€™ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world.
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Aspiring To Be Global - Language And Social Change In A Tourism Village In China

by Shuang Gao

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 This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. It explores the contingencies and tensions in the creation of a â€˜global villageâ€™ and reveals ambivalent struggles inherent in this ongoing process of social change.
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Transcultural Voices - Narrating Hip Hop Culture In Complex Delhi

by Jaspal Naveel Singh

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 This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. Through a combination of linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the book addresses issues including gender and sexuality, identity construction and global culture.
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The Transformative Materiality Of Meaning-Making

by David Parkin

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 This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the authorâ€™s thinking.
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Exploring (Im)Mobilities - Language Practices, Discourses And Imaginaries

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 The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to addressÂ the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
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The Transformative Materiality Of Meaning-Making

by David Parkin

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 This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the authorâ€™s thinking.
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Chronotopic Identity Work - Sociolinguistic Analyses Of Cultural And Linguistic Phenomena In Time And Space

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 The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, culture and identity. This volume brings together empirical work that puts flesh on the bones of this rather abstract theorizing, focusing on the discursive construction of chronotopic identities.
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Gender, Neoliberalism And Distinction Through Linguistic Capital - Taiwanese Narratives Of Struggle And Strategy

by Mark Fifer Seilhamer

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 This book presents the narratives of four Taiwanese young women, all proficient in English, set against the background of the dynamics of multilingualism in Taiwan. It chronicles their strategies and struggles when utilizing cultural goods â€" in this case their linguistic resources â€" to differentiate themselves within Taiwanese society.
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Critical Inquiries In The Sociolinguistics Of Globalization

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 This book seeks to examine the notions of â€˜linguistic diversityâ€™ and â€˜hybridityâ€™ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world.
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Aspiring To Be Global - Language And Social Change In A Tourism Village In China

by Shuang Gao

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 This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. It explores the contingencies and tensions in the creation of a â€˜global villageâ€™ and reveals ambivalent struggles inherent in this ongoing process of social change.
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Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies - Exploring Urban, Rural And Educational Spaces

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 This bookÂ is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication andÂ emergingÂ language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move towardÂ an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity.
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Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies - Exploring Urban, Rural And Educational Spaces

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 This bookÂ is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication andÂ emergingÂ language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move towardÂ an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity.
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The Multilingual Citizen - Towards A Politics Of Language For Agency And Change

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 In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the authors develop a notion of Linguistic Citizenship, highlighting practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over language, and detailing ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that often alienate those they were designed to support.
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The Multilingual Citizen - Towards A Politics Of Language For Agency And Change

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 In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the authors develop a notion of Linguistic Citizenship, highlighting practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over language, and detailing ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that often alienate those they were designed to support.
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Dialogues With Ethnography - Notes On Classics, And How I Read Them

by Jan Blommaert

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 Ethnography must be seen as a full theoretical system, not just as a method. In this book, a range of authors are examined, whose work was either instrumental in creating this theoretical system, or might productively be used in developing it further. Authors discussed include Hymes, Scollon, Kress, Bourdieu, Bakhtin and Lefebvre.
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Dialogues With Ethnography - Notes On Classics, And How I Read Them

by Jan Blommaert

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 Ethnography must be seen as a full theoretical system, not just as a method. In this book, a range of authors are examined, whose work was either instrumental in creating this theoretical system, or might productively be used in developing it further. Authors discussed include Hymes, Scollon, Kress, Bourdieu, Bakhtin and Lefebvre.
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