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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this growing area, the linguistic analysis of interaction in superdiverse cities. Developed as a descriptive term to account for the increasingly stratified processes and effects of migration in Western Europe, âsuperdiversityâ has the potential to contribute to an enhanced understanding of mobility, complexity, and change, with theoretical, practical, global, and methodological reach.
With seven sections edited by leading names, the handbook includes 35 state-of-the art chapters from international authorities. The handbook adopts a truly interdisciplinary approach, covering:
- Cultural heritage
- Sport
- Law
- Education
- Business and entrepreneurship.
The result is a truly comprehensive account of how people live, work and communicate in superdiverse spaces.
This volume
Trade Review
Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State, USA
I am of the view that this book will be an important publication in the fields of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics to further our understanding of language diversity in our globalizing world.. The editors succeed in showing the need for the handbook and the way it carves its own niche in the market.
He had a few very constructive suggestions, including adding a section on education, which I am discussing with the editors.
John Gray, Univ of East London, UK
A handbook at this stage would be an invaluable resource, given this proliferation and indeed recent critique of the concept... Such a volume would also sit well in the Applied Linguistics series, given the centrality of language in work on superdiversity.. There are many strengths – the involvement of a team of already recognised scholars of international standing; the interdisciplinary focus and the centrality of language are all noteworthy.
Main suggestion was to add a section on education, as SC above. This does reflect the background of both readers but it is clearly important.
Table of ContentsDedication
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction - Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese
PART I – edited by Jenny Phillimore and Li Wei
Language and superdiversity
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- Repertoires, registers, and linguistic diversity
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Alastair Pennycook
- Linguistic (super)diversity, post-multilingualism and translanguaging moments
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Li Wei
- Superdiversity perspective and the sociolinguistics of social media
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Sirpa Leppänen, Saija Peuronen and Elina Westinen
- Superdiversity as a lens to understand complexities
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Dirk Geldof
- "All the people speak bad English". Communicating across differences in a super-diverse context
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Susanne Wessendorf
PART II – edited by Lisa Goodson and Caroline Tagg
Researching communication in superdiverse contexts
- Superdiversity and linguistic ethnography: researching people and language in motion
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Martha Karrebaek and Constadina Charalambous
- Blurred vision? "Superdiversity" as a lens in research on communication in border contexts
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Robert Gibb and Julien Danero Iglesias
- Using researcher vignettes to explore co-production in a large diverse team: implications for research in superdiverse contexts
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Lisa Goodson and Caroline Tagg
- Moving methods online: Researching digital language practices
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Jannis Androutsopoulos and Andreas Staehr
- Reflecting on the ethics of researching communication in superdiverse contexts
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Fiona Copland
PART III – edited by Adrian Blackledge and Mike Robinson
Language, superdiversity and heritage
- The multivocality of heritage: Moments, encounters and mobilities
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Ana Deumert
- Dialect as heritage
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Joan Beal
- Discourses of ‘Chineseness’ and superdiversity
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Jing Huang
- Talking of heritage: The past in conversation
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Mike Robinson
- Superdiverse heritage and the question of authenticity: Reframing ‘brokenness’, comprehending change
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Sabina Vakser
PART IV – edited by Zhu Hua and Janice Thompson
Language, superdiversity and sport
- Language policy and planning and the Olympic Games
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Rachelle Vessey
- Linguistic practices, social identities and sports
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Lian Malai Madsen
- Football language in the age of superdiversity
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Gunnar Bergh and Sölve Ohlander
- Race, ethnicity and ‘Africa’ in football discourse – perspectives in the age of superdiversity
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Samu Kytölä
- Language and sport, physical activity and health among Black and Asian ethnic minority groups
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Symeon Dagkas and Whitney B. Curry
PART V – edited by Mike Baynham and Kiran Trehan
Language, superdiversity and business
- Language, Superdiversity, and Self-Employment
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Adrian Blackledge and Kiran Trehan
- Mobile messaging by migrant micro-entrepreneurs in contexts of superdiversity
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Caroline Tagg and Agnieszka Lyons
- Managing superdiversity in multinational companies
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Jiří Nekvapil and Tamah Sherman
- You are now one of us
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- negotiating ‘fitting in’ in the workplace
Marta Kirilova and Jo Angouri
- Multilingualism in migrant-tailored businesses: The case of telecommunications multinationals and "ethnic" call shops
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Maria Sabaté Dalmau
PART VI – edited by Bharat Malkani and Frances Rock
Language, superdiversity and law
- Sociolinguistic superdiversity and asylum
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Marco Jacquemet
- Legal interpreting in domestic and international courts: Responsiveness in action
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Ludmila Stern
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Joanna Drugan and Krzysztof Kredens
- Superdiversity and the relationship between law, language and translation in a supranational legal order
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Karen McAuliffe and Aleksandar Trklja
- The development of deaf legal discourse
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Christopher Stone and Gene Mirus
PART VII – edited by Melanie Cooke and James Simpson
Language, superdiversity and education
- Multilingual education policy, superdiversity and educational equity
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Kendall A. King and Martha Bigelow
- Translanguaging as pedagogy - a critical review
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Jean Conteh
- Adult migrant language education in a diversifying world
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Sari Pöyhönen, Mirja Tarnanen and James Simpson
- The multilingual University
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Mbulungeni Madiba
- Linguistic diversity in online and mobile learning
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and Mark Pegrum
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