The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9781139487429
ISBN-13 : 1139487426
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Book Synopsis The Sociolinguistics of Globalization by : Jan Blommaert

Download or read book The Sociolinguistics of Globalization written by Jan Blommaert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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