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WP179 Language, power, ethics and superdiversity
2015
In an era characterised by increasingly dynamic population mobility, traditional presuppositions about the substance of individual and group identities, and about the social and political semiotics that shape them, seem inadequate. In superdiverse …
Key words: ethics, language, power, superdiversity
WP37 Sociolinguistic scales
2006
Globalization compels disciplines such as sociolinguistics to unthink their theoretical fundamentals. In this paper, the notion of scale is introduced and its potential purchase for sociolinguistic analysis is discussed. Scale is a theoretical notion …
Key words: globalization, indexicality, inequality, norms, power, scale, sociolinguistics