TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blommaert,Jan
TI  - The sociolinguistics of globalization
T2  - Cambridge approaches to language contact
SN  - 9780521884068 (hbk.)
AV  - P130.5 .B58 2010
U1  - 306.44 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Languages in contact
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. A critical sociolinguistics of globalization; 2. A messy new marketplace; 3. Locality, the periphery and images of the world; 4. Repertoires and competence; 5. Language, globalization, and history; 6. Old and new inequalities; 7. Reflections
N2  - "Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic communication. In The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Jan Blommaert constructs a theory of changing language in a changing society, reconsidering locality, repertoires, competence, history and sociolinguistic inequality"--Provided by publisher
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