Language and culture on the margins : global/local interactions /
"This collection of thirteen essays examines sociolinguistic phenomena in a wide variety of marginal environments, providing both an overview of globalizaiton on the margins and a foundation for an expanded understanding of the processes of linguistic and cultural changes at work in these setti...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
c2018
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Routledge critical studies in multilingualism ;
16 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : language and culture on the margins / Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg
- Redefining the sociolinguistic "local" : examples from Tanzania / Jan Blommaert
- Reterritorialization and the construction of margins and centers through imitation in Indonesia / Zane Goebel
- English in Asmara as a changing reflection of online globalization / Sjaak Kroon, Jenny-Louise Van der Aa and Yonas Mesfun Asfaha
- Gender performativity in virtual space : transglossic language practices of young women in country Bangladesh / Shaila Sultana
- The language and culture of New Kids : appreciation of and familiarity with online Brabantish identities / Jos Swanenberg
- Literacy acquisition and mobile phones in a South African township : the story of Sarah / Fie Velghe
- 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
- Expanding marginality : linguascaping a Transcarpathian spa in south-western Ukraine / Petteri Laihonen and István Csernicskó
- Globalized linguistic resources at work : a case study of a local supermarket in Finnish Lapland / Massimiliano Spotti
- Calypso music, globalization and plurilingualism in the Dutch Caribbean / Gregory Richardson
- Consuming English in rural China : lookalike language and the semiotics of aspiration / Xuan Wang.