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Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes, chronicles of complexity, Jan Blommaert

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Ethnography, superdiversity and linguistic landscapes

electronic resource

Jan Blommaert

Critical language and literacy studies

chronicles of complexity

Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. Here, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective., 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

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