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100 _aBlommaert, Jan
245 0 _aSociolinguistics of globalization
260 _aCambridge
260 _bCambridge University Press
260 _c2010
300 _a213p.
520 _aHuman language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic communication. In The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Jan Blommaert constructs a theory of changing language in a changing society, reconsidering locality, repertoires, competence, history and sociolinguistic inequality.
650 _aLanguages in contact
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