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Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research breaks the silence that still surrounds learning a language for ethnographic research and in the process demystifies some of the multilingual aspects of contemporary ethnographic work. It does this by offering a set of engaging and accessible accounts of language learning and use written by ethnographers who are at different stages of their academic career. A key theme is how researchers’ experiences of learning and using other languages in fieldwork contexts relate to wider structures of power, hierarchy and inequality. The volume aims to promote a wider debate among researchers about how they themselves learn and use different languages in their work, and to help future fieldworkers make more informed choices when carrying out ethnographic research using other languages.

Anthropological linguistics --- Communication. --- Ethnography. --- Fieldwork. --- Language acquisition. --- Language learning. --- multilingualism. --- research methods. --- superdiversity.

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Are we facing an immense wave of language death or a period of remarkable new linguistic variation? Or both? This book answers this question by analysing studies of language endangerment and loss along with those of language change, revitalization and diversity. Using case studies from Russia and the EU, the authors compare historical language variation to that of the present day, arguing that accelerated language extinction can be considered a result of colonization, modernization and globalization, but so too can many new creoles, intertwined and mixed languages, new ethnic identities, new groups of urban dwellers or migrant groups, all with their own distinct cultural traits. The book therefore surmises that the linguistic heritage of today is simultaneously more endangered and more diverse than ever before.

Language and languages --- Endangered languages. --- Code switching (Linguistics) --- Historical linguistics. --- Variation. --- Language change. --- Language death. --- Language endangerment. --- Language extinction. --- Language revitalisation. --- Language variation. --- Minorities. --- Plurilingualism. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Superdiversity.

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This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual societies and language communities in the margins, who are trapped in a vicious circle of disadvantage. It analyses the social, psychological and sociolinguistic processes of linguistic dominance and hierarchical relationships among languages, discrimination, marginalisation and assertive maintenance in multilingualism characterised by a Double Divide, and shows the relationship between educational neglect of languages, capability deprivation and poverty, and loss of linguistic diversity. Its comparative analysis of language-in-education policies and practices and applications of multilingual education (MLE) in diverse contexts shows some promises and challenges in the education of indigenous/tribal/minority children. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, educators and practitioners in sociolinguistics, educational linguistics, psycholinguistics, multilingualism and bilingual/multilingual education.

Multilingualism --- Multilingual education --- Language and education --- Social aspects --- Indian Languages. --- Language Policy. --- Language and Power. --- MLE. --- Marginalisation. --- Minority Languages. --- Mother Language Education. --- Mother-tongue Education. --- Multilingual Education. --- Multilingualism. --- Superdiversity.

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This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world. Drawing on a variety of cities in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, it overcomes the Eurocentric bias that has marked debate on cosmopolitanism from its inception. The contributions highlight the crucial role of migrants as actors of urban change and targets of urban policies, thus reconciling empirical and normative approaches to cosmopolitanism. By addressing issues such as cosmopolitanism and urban geographies of power, locations and temporalities of subaltern cosmopolites, political meanings and effects of cosmopolitan practices and discourses in urban contexts, it revisits contemporary debates on superdiversity, urban stratification and local incorporation, and assess the role of migration and mobility in globalization and social change.

Migration. Refugees --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Environmental planning --- Social geography --- ruimtelijke ordening --- migratie (mensen) --- Emigration and immigration --- Cosmopolitanism --- Globalization --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Political science --- Internationalism --- Social aspects --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Migration, immigration & emigration --- Public administration --- Human geography --- Migration --- Public Policy --- Human Geography --- Human Migration --- Urban Geography and Urbanism --- Migration Policy --- Open access --- Urban studies --- Urban planning --- Population mobility --- migration and integration --- Superdiversity --- Urban stratification --- Contemporary cities --- Residential patterns

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Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the complex histories of a place. The book can be read in many ways: as a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of linguistic landscape; as one of the first monographs which addresses the sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social life.

Migration. Refugees --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociology of culture --- interculturaliteit --- Sociolinguistics --- Sociology of minorities --- interculturele communicatie --- Mass communications --- Belgium --- Antwerp --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Meertalige communicatie --- #KVHA:Superdiversiteit --- #KVHA:Etnografie --- #KVHA:Meertaligheid --- Multilingualism --- Languages in contact --- City dwellers --- Linguistic minorities --- Ethnicity --- Language. --- Antwerp (Belgium) --- Languages. --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Minority languages --- Minorities --- Areal linguistics --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- City population --- City residents --- Dwellers, City --- Residents of cities --- Urban dwellers --- Urban people --- Urban population --- Urban residents --- Urbanites --- Persons --- Population --- Language --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Political aspects --- Anṿerśah (Belgium) --- Anṭṿerpen (Belgium) --- Antwerpen (Belgium) --- Antuerpia (Belgium) --- Anvers (Belgium) --- Anversa (Belgium) --- Antwerpia (Belgium) --- Anwerpia (Belgium) --- Andowerpia (Belgium) --- Amberes (Belgium) --- Antverpia (Belgium) --- Ambivaritum (Belgium) --- Anderpus (Belgium) --- Andevorpum (Belgium) --- Andoverpis (Belgium) --- Andoverpum (Belgium) --- Antwerpha (Belgium) --- Antwerpium (Belgium) --- Antwerpo (Belgium) --- Antwerpum (Belgium) --- Handoverpia (Belgium) --- Andwerpa (Belgium) --- Antverpis (Belgium) --- Antverpo (Belgium) --- Antverpum (Belgium) --- אנטווערפען --- Minoritized languages --- Antwerp. --- complexity. --- conviviality. --- ethnography. --- linguistic landscapes. --- linguistic landscaping. --- migration. --- multilingual signs. --- multiliteracies. --- multimodality. --- sociolinguistic landscapes. --- superdiversity.