Multilingual Matters eBooks· 2013
Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes
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- 2013year
Short summary
This paper proposes an innovative ethnographic approach to understanding superdiverse neighborhoods by analyzing multilingual signs as historical chronicles of a place.
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Key points
- Superdiversity necessitates new analytical tools for understanding complex social environments.
- An innovative ethnographic approach focuses on linguistic landscapes.
- Multilingual signs are presented as historical chronicles of a place.
- The author investigates their own neighborhood using this complexity perspective.
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Abstract
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 a complexity perspective and demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the histories of a place.
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Field: Linguistics and Language
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