Detecting social changes in times of Superdiversity:An Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Ostend in Belgium
Superdiversity, on the one hand, calls for new frames, concepts, and methodologies to deal with a fluid reality characterized by rapid (social) changes. On the other hand, we also have a need to broaden our scope beyond the heavy focus on the urban metropolis as the locus of superdiversity. With this paper I want to contribute to the research addressing these challenges by infusing existing research within Linguistic Landscape Studies with a semiotic and ethnographic perspective and add to our existing knowledge of superdiversity by focusing on a ‘small’ Belgian city called Ostend instead of a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Maly , I 2016 , ' Detecting social changes in times of Superdiversity : An Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Ostend in Belgium ' , Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies . https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1131149 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28548747 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/b27bd7e0-2c72-4b3c-aeca-b3ae7976fc89 |
Superdiversity, on the one hand, calls for new frames, concepts, and methodologies to deal with a fluid reality characterized by rapid (social) changes. On the other hand, we also have a need to broaden our scope beyond the heavy focus on the urban metropolis as the locus of superdiversity. With this paper I want to contribute to the research addressing these challenges by infusing existing research within Linguistic Landscape Studies with a semiotic and ethnographic perspective and add to our existing knowledge of superdiversity by focusing on a ‘small’ Belgian city called Ostend instead of a cosmopolitan world city with millions of inhabitants. I argue that Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis (ELLA) enables us to describe, quite accurately, rapid social changes in complex superdiverse neighborhoods. Moreover, ELLA enables us to move beyond a mere synchronic picture of superdiverse neighborhoods and sketch a ‘stratigraphy’ and a historical perspective on them.