Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied
to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it
changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of
villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material
and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon
requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic communication.
In The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Jan Blommaert constructs a
theory of changing language in a changing society, reconsidering
locality, repertoires, competence, history and sociolinguistic
inequality.
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ISBN
9780511848339
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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