Superdiversity has rendered places, groups and practices complex and the usual tools of analysis need rethinking. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, the author investigates his own neighbourhood from…

This text presents analyses of historically-situated discursive events during which ideas about language are formed, articulated and authoritatively entextualized.

An analysis on the rhetoric of the ‘tolerant majority’ those who view themselves as being open to a diverse society; a rhetoric that is prevalent throughout the media and political…

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Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan…

Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity…