Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization

Edited by Tyler Andrew Barrett, Sender Dovchin

Publication date:

26 February 2019

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781788922845

The studies in this collection seek to examine the notions of ‘linguistic diversity’ and ‘hybridity’ through the lenses of new critical theories and theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The chapters include critical inquiries into online/offline languages in society, language users, language learners and language teachers who may operate ‘between’ languages and are faced with decisions to navigate, negotiate and invent or re-invent languages, local and global and virtual spaces. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces of Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, South Korea and the USA.

Tyler Barrett and Sender Dovchin: Foreword

Chapter 1. Shaila Sultana: Linguistic and Multi-Modal Resources within the Local-Global Interface of the Virtual Space: Critically Aware Youths in Bangladesh

Chapter 2. Dejan Ivković, Violetta Cupial, Jamie Arfin and Tiziana Ceccato: Linguascaping the City: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Linguistic Placemaking of Toronto’s Chinatown and Kensington Market Neighbourhoods

Chapter 3. Dariush Izadi: “That's My Husband’s Sees the Smoke on This Card Bill He Doesn’t like Me Smoking” Service Interactions in Persian Shops in Sydney

Chapter 4. Kara Fleming: Language, Scale, and Ideologies of the National in Kazakhstan

Chapter 5. Sender Dovchin: The Politics of Injustice in Translingualism: Linguistic Discrimination

Chapter 6. Jerry Won Lee: Translingualism as Resistance Against What and for Whom?

Chapter 7. Tyler Barrett: Transgrammaring Bilinguals and ‘Ordinary’ English in Japanese Ethnic Churchscapes

Chapter 8. Kim Rockell: The Coding Catastrophe: Translingualism and Noh in the Japanese Computer Science EFL Classroom

This is a must-read collection for anybody searching for novel ideas in the field of the sociolinguistics of globalisation. This timely and exceptional book recognises diversity both as a challenge and as an opportunity. It focuses on the importance of everyday language practices, as well as other non-linguistic, semiotic and spatial relations. A highly compelling volume which takes a critical inquiry approach to post-multilingual diversity.