%0 Book
%T Diversity and super-diversity: sociocultural linguistic perspectives
%E De Fina, Anna
%E Ikizoglu, Didem
%E Wegner, Jeremy
%S Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
%D 2017
%I Georgetown University Press
%C Washington, DC
%@ 9781626164215
%G English
%F 867617632
%O Anna De Fina, Didem Ikizoglu, and Jeremy Wegner, editors
%O The chapters that comprise this volume are based on papers presented at the 2015 Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics whose theme was "Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives."  The volume is a collection of works by the plenary speakers as well as papers that we regard as most representative of the issues presented and discussed at that exciting event, which saw the confluence of presentations by scholars from twenty different countries--Introduction
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%X Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Globalization has accelerated population flows, so that cities are now sites of encounter for groups that are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and languages. New media technologies invent communicative genres, foster hybrid semiotic practices, and spread diversity as they intensify contact and exchange between peoples who often are spatially removed and culturally different from each other. Diversity--even super-diversity--is now the norm. In response, recent scholarship complicates traditional associations between languages and social identities, emphasizing the connectedness of communicative events and practices at different scales and the embedding of languages within new physical landscapes and mediated practices. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and faces the theoretical-methodological challenges that accounting for such phenomena poses to sociocultural linguistics
%L 306.44
%K Sociolinguistics
%K Multilingualism
%K Conference papers and proceedings
%9 Text
%9 Konferenzschrift-2015-Washington, DC