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Commentary: Mobility, contexts, and the chronotope by Blommaert, Jan

“…Mobility raises specific issues with regard to what we understand by ‘context’, and in this commentary I suggest that Bakhtin's concept of chronotope could be…”
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Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis: Orders of Indexicality and Polycentricity by Blommaert, Jan

“…Developments in the structure of societies, such as globalisation processes, compel us to devote more attention to issues of sociolinguistic variation in…”
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Ergoic Framing in New Right Online Groups: Q, the MAGA Kid, and the Deep State Theory by Procházka, Ondrej, Blommaert, Jan

“…Conspiracy theories are often disqualified as inadequate and deliberate forms of misinformation. In this analysis, we engage with a specific case, the…”
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POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN POST-DIGITAL SOCIETIES by Blommaert, Jan

“…ABSTRACT In his contribution to the Special Issue “Digital and semiotic mechanisms of contemporary populisms”, Jan Blommaert offers a communicability model…”
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Ethnographic fieldwork: a beginner's guide by Blommaert, Jan, Jie, Dong

“…This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don't know much about to begin with, facilitated by…”
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Chronotopes, Scales, and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society by Blommaert, Jan

“…Recent developments in the study of language in society have moved the field increasingly away from linear models toward complex models. The complexity of…”
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On the need to broaden the concept of ethnic identity by van de Vijver, Fons J.R., Blommaert, Jan, Gkoumasi, Georgia, Stogianni, Maria

“…We argue that the traditional split between ethnic identity and mainstream identity as core identities of immigrants can no longer describe the multiple…”
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Comprender la sociedad a través del lenguaje: una nueva mirada sobre los grupos sociales y la integración by Blommaert, Jan

“…En este ensayo, el lingüista belga Jan Blommaert postula que el sustento empírico de la sociolingüística y su foco en la descripción de los patrones de…”
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Writing as a problem: African grassroots writing, economies of literacy, and globalization by BLOMMAERT, JAN

“…This article analyzes a set of handwritten documents produced by a Burundese asylum seeker in Belgium. The documents are instances of “grassroots writing”:…”
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Commentary: Superdiversity old and new by Blommaert, Jan

“…This commentary reviews the papers in this volume as successful attempts at unthinking a legacy of nation-state sociolinguistics, enabled by developments in…”
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Language, Asylum, and the National Order by Blommaert, Jan

“…This paper discusses modernist reactions to postmodern realities. Asylum seekers in Western Europe—people typically inserted into postmodern processes of…”
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Polycentricity and interactional regimes in 'global neighborhoods' by Blommaert, Jan, Collins, James, Slembrouck, Stef

“…Focusing on multilingualism in late-modern urban environments, this article argues for the neighborhood as a unit of practice mapped by field-specific…”
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From Groups to Actions and Back in Online-Offline Sociolinguistics by Blommaert, Jan

“…The papers in this volume all articulate a keen awareness of the shift in sociolinguistic economies caused by online technologies. We now live in an…”
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Infrastructures of superdiversity: Conviviality and language in an Antwerp neighborhood by Blommaert, Jan

“…This article develops an ethnographic approach to ‘linguistic landscapes’, applied to an inner-city neighborhood in Antwerp (Belgium). Linguistic landscapes…”
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Commentary: Chronotopes, synchronization and formats by Blommaert, Jan

“…After a brief discussion of how the notion of chronotope enables us to address issues of context and contextualization in a more adequate way, this commentary…”
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Formatting online actions: #justsaying on Twitter by Blommaert, Jan

“…The hashtag #justsaying is one of Twitter's global stock hashtags. The hashtag is nontopical and appears to fulfil a complex range of metapragmatic framing…”
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The sociolinguistics of globalization: Jan Blommaert by Blommaert, Jan

“…"Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the…”
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Citizenship, Language, and Superdiversity: Towards Complexity by Blommaert, Jan

“…This discussion piece outlines the challenges posed by superdiversity for our understanding of (dis-)citizenship. In superdiversity, features that suggest…”
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Writing as a sociolinguistic object by Blommaert, Jan

“…Writing has never been a core object of sociolinguistics, and this paper argues for a mature sociolinguistics of writing. Seen from a sociolinguistic…”
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Situating language rights: 
English and Swahili in Tanzania revisited1 by Blommaert, Jan

“…This paper argues for an ethnographic‐sociolinguistic approach to the issue of linguistic rights. In much of the literature on linguistic rights, a…”
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