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The sociolinguistics of globalization /
"Human 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 symbo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010
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| Colección: | Cambridge approaches to language contact.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Human 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" |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780511768620 0511768621 9780511770319 0511770316 9780511845307 0511845308 1282653059 9781282653054 9780511767234 0511767234 9786612653056 6612653051 0511848331 9780511848339 1107211360 9781107211360 0511769466 9780511769467 0511765843 9780511765841 |