Engaging Superdiversity

Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices

By: Jan Blommaert (Editor), Massimiliano Spotti (Editor), Martha Sif KarrebÃ¦k (Editor), Karel Arnaut (Editor)

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Hardcover | 9 January 2016

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This book is the fruition of five years' work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary research into the potential and the limits of human cultural creativity and societal renewal under conditions of increasing and complexifying global connectivity. Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.

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Challenging the superdiversity sceptic, this broad and compelling collection of chapters carefully engages with superdiversity across time and space, from schools to mercantile spaces, from Indonesia to Denmark, showing the emergence of, as well as constraints upon, new convergences, new cultural practices, and new socialities. Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney, Australia The volume represents a bold attempt to establish superdiversity as a key concept in post-variationist sociolinguistics. Based on a range of fascinating case studies - including African fortune-tellers in Paris, language workers in London call centres, discourses of food and integration in Danish schools, and ethnolinguistic stylizations in Indonesian soap operas - the chapters showcase an ethnographically oriented sociolinguistics that centres on heterogeneity, unexpectedness, complexity and reflexivity. Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universitat Hamburg, Germany This pioneering volume extends earlier use of the concept of superdiversity from describing linguistic and socio-demographic complexity occurring globally since about 1990 to a focus on specific spatial sites and post-panoptic tension between semiotic dispersal and recombination. It admirably succeeds in its aim of reaching out to a wider social science and humanities audience. David Parkin, University of Oxford, UK

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