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Introduction to Language policies and the politics of language practices
No full textThis edited Volume entitled Language policies and the politics of language practices consists of contributions stemming from the field of ethnography of education, minority language teaching and language politics more in general. Starting from past contributions hunched in a more Fishmanian ‘sociolinguistics of spread’ where the driving question has been who speaks which language to whom, where and why, the Volume shows how the study of language in society has moved toward a post-Fishmanian ‘sociolinguistics of mobility’ (Blommaert, 2010; Spotti, 2011; De Fina, 2020). At its core, there is an attempt to show and further grasp how globalization driven sociolinguistics phenomena across the globe have had an effect not only on language policy processes but also on how these policy processes and their politics are often confronted by the practices of language users in their micro-fabrics of daily interactions within the socio-cultural spaces they inhabit
Asylum Seeking, Identity Tracking Techniques, and the Paradox of Web Truths
No full textGuest post by Massimiliano Spotti, Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture Studies and Deputy Director of Babylon – Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His areas of expertise deals with citizenship, integration, information and communications technologies, and identity construction. He’s recently started a research line dealing with ‘asylum seeking 2.0,’ looking at the implications of the web and social media for the identity tracking process of asylum seeking applicants
“It’s All About Naming Things Right”:The Paradox of Web Truths in the Belgian Asylum-Seeking Procedure
No full textThe chapter deals with the process of identity (mis)recognition that has led to the rejection of an asylum seeking application. Spotti addresses discrepancies between the story narrated by the asylum seeking applicant and the type of factual knowledge sought by the officials judging the truthfulness of his identity claim, as well as between official naming practices and the locally based naming of things used by the applicant. The case documented here, demonstrative of a politics of suspicion, also serves the metonymic function of laying bare some of the torn ligaments around the bones of globalization. It encapsulates how migratory experiences are registered into administrative prescriptive accounts of how one should prove his own identity
Sociolinguistics and Superdiversity:Innovations and Challenges at the online - offline nexus
Full text linkThis chapter first takes stock of the prolific relationship superdiversity has had with sociolinguistics (Blommaert, Rampton, Arnaut & Spotti 2015; Blackledge et al. 2017) and the advancements it has helped the field make in reshaping its conceptual wealth and its methodological armour. From there, we set forth with an open reflection on the notion of ‘combinatorial spaces’ (Arnaut, Karrebaek & Spotti 2016) using it as a lens that - once appraised from an ethnographic interpretive perspective - could avoid the analysis of (im)mobility and complexity to fall into easy celebrations of individuality versus ‘bake and break’ hybridity. Last, we move toward gaining insight into the more recent application of superdiversity and sociolinguistics within the online-offline nexus putting it in relation to the recent re-appreciation of the notion of Durkheim’s sociation and of the ‘social fact’ (1895 [2010]). Ultimately, while trying to compound early prolific encounters of language and superdiversity with the online-offline nexus work in progress, we try to open up our analysis to new forms of imaginable vocabulary that may come to help the sociolinguistic ethnographic analyst that wishes to dissect human beings’ creativity as flagged out in every day communicative exchanges and socio-semiotic identity performances while tying it down to the importance of apres Durkheim’s work for furthering the understanding of the superdiverse ‘human in the digital’
Engaging Superdiversity:The Poiesis infrastructures Nexus and Language Practices in Cobinatorial Spaces
No full textSociolinguistic Shibboleths at the Institutional Gate
No full textMigration has changed, now it does not matter where you come from but in order to securitize borders, then language are made to correspond to identit
Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Globalization and Superdiversity:Toward Sociolinguistic Repertoires
Full text linkA survey of developments in research on sociolinguistic superdiversity, emphasizing the increased relevance of repertoires as focus of research
Enseñanza de la escritura de Max Aub: comprensión y memoria
No full textEste texto analiza a obra testimonial de Max Aub sobre su experiencia en los campos de concentración en Francia desde una perspectiva de discursos comparados. Para destacar las estrategias de la escritura del autor recuperables por otros proyectos discursivos que persigan la sensibilización y la denuncia a través del cruce entre la comunicación y la éticaThis text analyses the testimonial work of Max Aub about his experience in the French concentration camps in France from comparative discourses approach. It emphasizes the writing strategies used by the author useful for other awareness and denounce discourses through the dialogue among communication and ethic
Max Brooks literary reading flier
No full text2012 Bismarck State College Visiting Writers Series and ArtsQuest present: Max Brooks. April 25, 7:30 p.m.; Belle Mehus Auditorium. Max Brooks is the author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and the graphic novel The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
Max Frisch's novel: Stiller. A study
No full text The attempt is made in the following study to present an interpretation of the novel "Stiller" by the Swiss author, Max Frisch, by tracing through the novel the dominant themes of the graven-image or 'Bildnis' and that of the problem of freedom with reference to the novel's main character. ThesisMaster of Arts (MA
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