Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes Blommaert Jan
Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes Blommaert Jan Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis…
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Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes Blommaert Jan
Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the complex histories of a place. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective.
The book can be read in many ways: as a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of linguistic landscape; as one of the first monographs which addresses the sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social
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