TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blommaert,Jan
AU  - Blommaert,Jan
AU  - Kubota,Ryuko
AU  - Morgan,Brian
AU  - Pennycook,Alastair
TI  - Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity 
T2  - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
SN  - 9781783090402
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : 
PB  - Multilingual Matters, 
KW  - City dwellers
KW  - Language
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Antwerp
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Languages in contact
KW  - Linguistic minorities
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - complexity
KW  - conviviality
KW  - ethnography
KW  - linguistic landscapes
KW  - linguistic landscaping
KW  - migration
KW  - multilingual signs
KW  - multiliteracies
KW  - multimodality
KW  - sociolinguistic landscapes
KW  - superdiversity
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Series Editors’ Preface --; 1. Introduction: New Sociolinguistic Landscapes --; 2. Historical Bodies and Historical Space --; 3. Semiotic and Spatial Scope --; 4. Signs, Practices, People --; 5. Change and Transformation --; 6. The Vatican of the Diaspora --; 7. Conclusion: The Order of Superdiversity --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the complex histories of a place. 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 life
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783090419
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781783090419
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781783090419/original
ER  -