Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization

Tyler Andrew Barrett, Sender Dovchin

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781788922838
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788922869
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover-Page
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Linguistic and Multimodal Resources within the Local–Global Interface of the Virtual Space: Critically Aware Youths in Bangladesh
• 2. Linguascaping the City: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Linguistic Place-making of Toronto’s Chinatown and Kensington Market Neighborhoods
• 3. ‘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
• 4. Language, Scale and Ideologies of the National in Kazakhstan
• 5. The Politics of Injustice in Translingualism: Linguistic Discrimination
• 6. Translingualism as Resistance Against What and for Whom?
• 7. Transgrammaring Bilinguals and ‘Ordinary’ English in Japanese Ethnic Churchscapes
• 8. The Coding Catastrophe: Translingualism and Noh in the Japanese Computer Science EFL Classroom
• Index