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, and more recent scholarship complicates traditional associations between languages and social identities. Diversity—and even super-diversity—is now the norm. This volume examines the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and addresses the theoretical-methodological challenges that accounting for such phenomena pose to sociocultural linguistics. Diversity and Super-Diversity brings together top scholars in the field and stages the debate on super-diversity that will be sure to interest sociocultural linguists, generating discussion and informing future research.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Chronotopic Identities: On the Timespace Organization of Who We Are
Jan Blommaert and Anna De Fina
2. "Whose Story?": Narratives of Persecution, Flight, and Survival Told by the Children of Austrian Holocaust Survivors
Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf
3. Linguistic Landscape: Interpreting and Expanding Language Diversities
Elana Shohamy
4. A Competence for Negotiating Diversity and Unpredictability in Global Contact Zones
Suresh Canagarajah
5. The Strategic Use of Address Terms in Multilingual Interactions during Family Mealtimes
Fatma Said and Zhu Hua
6. Everyday Encounters in the Marketplace: Translanguaging in the Super-Diverse City
Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese, and Rachel Hu
7. (In)convenient Fictions: Ideologies of Multilingual Competence as Resource for Recognizability
Elizabeth R. Miller
8. Constructed Dialogue, Stance, and Ideological Diversity in Metalinguistic Discourse
Anastasia Nylund
9. Citizen Sociolinguistics: A New Media Methodology for Understanding Language and Social Life
Betsy Rymes, Geeta Aneja, Andrea Leone-Pizzighella, Mark Lewis, and Robert Moore
10. Recasting Diversity in Language Education in Postcolonial, Late-Capitalist Societies
Luisa Martín Rojo, Christine Anthonissen, Inmaculada García-Sánchez, and Virginia Unamuno
11. Diversity in School: Monolingual Ideologies versus Multilingual Practices
Anna De Fina
Contributors
Index
Reviews
"The value of this volume is that it goes beyond a simple discussion on superdiversity, including case studies that problematize and complicate the ways in which language, communication and identity have been interpreted in the past. By embedding these concepts within different and new contexts, it engages readers in the mobility, complexity and interconnectedness that the case studies so well describe."—Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
About the Author
Anna De Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her most recent publication is Analyzing Narrative: Discourse and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (with Alexandra Georgakopoulou).
Didem Ikizoglu is a PhD student in linguistics at Georgetown University.
Jeremy Wegner is a PhD student in linguistics at Georgetown University.
