Vol. 18 in the Critical Language and Literacy Studies series.

Also available in electronic format.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and Acknowledgements

Series Editor's Preface

1. INTRODUCTION: NEW SOCIOLINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES
Superdiversity -- Complexity -- Chronicles of Complexity -- Introducing Berchem

2. HISTORICAL BODIES AND HISTORICAL SPACE
The Problem of Synchrony -- Historical Bodies in Historical Space -- The Zebra Crossing

3. SEMIOTIC AND SPATIAL SCOPE Signs in Public -- Scope and Demarcation -- High-Octane LLS

4. SIGNS, PRACTICES, PEOPLE
Who Lives Here? -- Forms of Organization -- The Synchronic Picture

5. CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION
The Transformation of the Turkish Community -- Unfinished Transitions -- Ecumenical Dutch as a Diagnostic -- The Historical Image of the Neighborhood -- Infrastructures for Superdiversity

6. THE VATICAN OF DIASPORA
Worshipping in 16 Places -- Visibility and Invisibility -- Fully Globalized Churches -- The Functions of Churches -- The Vatican

7. CONCLUSION: THE ORDER OF SUPERDIVERSITY
The Order of Superdiversity -- On Structure -- The End of Synchrony -- On Interdisciplinarity

References

Index

''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 neighborhood 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.'' (Book Cover)

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