WP121 Michael Silverstein in conversation: Translatability and the uses of standardisation

Michael Silverstein is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology at the University of Chicago, and has played a central role in the development of contemporary US linguistic anthropology. At the first International Conference on Language and Superdiversity held at the University of Jyv?skyl? in June 2013, he gave a keynote lecture entitled ?How Language Communities Intersect: Is ?superdiversity? an incremental or transformative condition? ?, and in this wide-ranging conversation with Jef van der Aa and Jan Blommaert shortly before, he covers ? among other things ? translatability and the uses of standardisation.? You can watch the conversation at?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YjedFgl0zQ.