Language and Culture on the Margins: Global/Local Interactions

Author:   Sjaak Kroon ,  Jos Swanenberg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
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9780815373025


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   17 September 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Sjaak Kroon ,  Jos Swanenberg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780815373025


ISBN 10:   0815373023
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   17 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Language and culture on the margins Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg Chapter 2 Redefining the sociolinguistic ‘local’: Examples from Tanzania Jan Blommaert Chapter 3 Reterritorialization and the construction of margins and centers through imitation in Indonesia Zane Goebel Chapter 4 English in Asmara as a changing reflection of online globalization Sjaak Kroon, Jenny-Louise Van der Aa and Yonas Mesfun Asfaha Chapter 5 Gender performativity in virtual space: Transglossic language practices of young women in country Bangladesh Shaila Sultana Chapter 6 The language and culture of New Kids: Appreciation of and familiarity with online Brabantish identities Jos Swanenberg Chapter 7 Literacy acquisition and mobile phones in a South African township: The story of Sarah Fie Velghe Chapter 8 Scaling queer performativities of genders and sexualities in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro in digital and face-to-face semiotic encounters Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes, Branca Falabella Fabrício and Thayse Figueira Guimarães Chapter 9 Expanding marginality: Linguascaping a Transcarpathian spa in south-western Ukraine Petteri Laihonen and István Csernicskó Chapter 10 Globalized linguistic resources at work: A case study of a local supermarket in Finnish Lapland Massimiliano Spotti Chapter 11 Calypso music, globalization and plurilingualism in the Dutch Caribbean Gregory Richardson Chapter 12 Consuming English in rural China: Lookalike language and the semiotics of aspiration Xuan Wang

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Sjaak Kroon is professor of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society. He is a member of the Department of Culture Studies and Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His main focus in research and teaching is on linguistic and cultural diversity, language policy, literacy and education in the context of globalization. Jos Swanenberg is professor of Diversity in Language and Culture at the Department of Culture Studies and Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, president of the board of the Association of Applied Linguistics in The Netherlands and Belgium, and adviser on heritage, language and culture at Erfgoed Brabant (Cultural Heritage Foundation) in ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.

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