TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blommaert,Jan
TI  - Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity 
SN  - 9781783090396 (pbk)
AV  - P115.5.B4 B56 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Toronto, ON
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Antwerp
KW  - Languages in contact
KW  - City dwellers
KW  - Language
KW  - Linguistic minorities
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Antwerp (Belgium)
KW  - Languages
N1  - 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; Usagers simultanés/Concurrent users: 1
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 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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