Globalization and language in contact : scale, migration and communicative practices / edited by James Collins, Stef Slembrouck and Mike Baynham.

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9781441125149
1441125140
0826497985
9780826497987
9781441129246
1441129243
1282452886
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Globalization and language in contact.DDC classification:

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P130.5 .G56 2009eb

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Introduction : scale, migration and communicative practice / James Collins, Stef Slembrouck and Mike Baynham -- Goffman and globalization : frame, footing and scale in migration-connected multilingualism / James Collins and Stef Slembrouck -- Space, scale and accents : constructing migrant identity in Beijing / Jie Dong and Jan Blommaert -- A relational understanding of language practice : interacting timespaces in a single ethnographic site / Cécile B. Vigouroux -- Immigration in Catalonia : marking territory through language / Joan Pujolar -- From space to spatialization in narrative studies / Anna De Fina -- 'Just one day like today' : scale and the analysis of space/time orientation in narratives of displacement / Mike Baynham -- Transnational flows, networks and 'transcultural capital' : reflections on researching migrant networks through linguistic ethnography / Ulrike Hanna Meinhof -- 'Either' and 'both' : the changing concept of living space among Polish post-communist migrants to the United Kingdom / Aleksandra Galasińska and Olga Kozłowska -- The spaces of language : the everyday practices of young Somali refugees and asylum seekers / Gill Valentine, Deborah Sporton and Katrine Bang Nielsen -- 'Canada meets France' : recasting identities of Canadianness and Francité through global economic exchanges / Gabriele Budach -- Changing participation in changing practice : uses of language and literacy among Portuguese migrant women in the United Kingdom / Clara Keating -- Weighing the scales : recontextualization as horizontal scaling / Catherine Kell.

Summary: This book examines the impact of globalization on languages in contact, including the study of linkages between the global and local, and transnational and situated communication. It engages with social theory and social processes while grappling with questions of language analysis raised by globalized language contact. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe and Africa, the volume makes three important contributions to contemporary sociolinguistics by:. * arguing that concepts of scale and space are essential for understanding contemporary sociolinguistic phenomena. * showing that.

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This book examines the impact of globalization on languages in contact, including the study of linkages between the global and local, and transnational and situated communication. It engages with social theory and social processes while grappling with questions of language analysis raised by globalized language contact. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe and Africa, the volume makes three important contributions to contemporary sociolinguistics by:. * arguing that concepts of scale and space are essential for understanding contemporary sociolinguistic phenomena. * showing that.