Engaging Superdiversity

Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices

Edited by Karel Arnaut, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Dr. Massimiliano Spotti, Dr. Jan Blommaert

Publication date:

09 December 2016

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781783096794

This book is the fruition of five years’ work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary research into the potential and the limits of human cultural creativity and societal renewal under conditions of increasing and complexifying global connectivity. Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.

Contributors
Introduction
1. Karel Arnaut, Martha Sif Karrebæk and Massimiliano Spotti: Engaging Superdiversity: The Poiesis-Infrastructure Nexus and Language Practices in Combinatorial Spaces
2. Piia Varis: Superdiverse Times and Places: Media, Mobility, Conjunctures and Structures of Feeling
3. Jan Blommaert: Chronotopes, Scales and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society
Classrooms and Schools
4. Robert Moore: ‘Taking Up Speech’ In an Endangered Language: Bilingual Discourse in A Heritage Language Classroom
5. Martha Sif Karrebæk: Rye Bread For Lunch, Lasagne for Breakfast: Enregisterment, Classrooms, and National Food Norms in Superdiversity
Youth, etc.
6. Janus Spindler Møller: ‘You Black Black’: Polycentric Norms for the Use of Terms Associated With Ethnicity
7. Lian Malai Madsen: Social Status Relations and Enregisterment: Integrated Speech in Copenhagen
8. Andreas Stæhr: Languaging and Normativity on Facebook
Mercantile Spaces
9. Cécile Vigouroux: Magic Marketing: Performing Grassroots Literacy
10. Johanna Woydack: Superdiversity and a London Multilingual Call Centre
Nation-states
11. Zane Goebel: Superdiversity From Within: The Case of Ethnicity in Indonesia
12. Lu Jiqun Luke: ‘Designer Immigrant’ Students in Singapore: Challenges for Linguistic Human Rights in a Globalising World
13. Kamran Khan: Citizenship, Securitization and Suspicion in UK ESOL Policy
Index

Challenging the superdiversity sceptic, this broad and compelling collection of chapters carefully engages with superdiversity across time and space, from schools to mercantile spaces, from Indonesia to Denmark, showing the emergence of, as well as constraints upon, new convergences, new cultural practices, and new socialities.