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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
WP174 Multilingual classrooms in times of superdiversity
2015
In this paper, we discuss multilingual classrooms and superdiversity. More specifically we address the consequences that a revised understanding of language, based on the concept of language repertoires,? has for language education, as well as for …
Key words: education, multilingualism, superdiversity
WP154 Superdiversity & discourses of conflict: Interaction in a literacy class
2015
Discussions of superdiversity argue that rapid social change has generated major problems for linguistic, ethnic and cultural categorisation.? But what happens when these changes occur in a conflict-ridden society which struggles to preserve the …
Key words: education, superdiversity
WP152 Superdiversity and sociolinguistics
2015
This paper is the introduction to a book that brings together some of the work developed in a network of sociolinguistic research groups that have collaborated for several years with ?language and superdiversity? as a broad thematic heading.? It …
Key words: sociolinguistics, superdiversity
WP122 Superdiversity discourse
2014
Super-diversity discourse is a relatively new, primarily academic discourse whose increasing presence in the domains of social work, institutional policy, urban and national politics, and the media is signalling a rapidly growing uptake, albeit one …
Key words: diversity, superdiversity
WP76 Enough is enough: The heuristics of authenticity in superdiversity
2011
This short paper sketches an empirical theory of identity in a context of superdiversity.? It intends to offer a realistic, yet generalizable, approach to inquiries into the complexities of contemporary identity practices. Such practices now evolve …
Key words: superdiversity