Jan Blommaert

Bio: Jan Blommaert is an academic researcher from Tilburg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociolinguistics & Superdiversity. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 262 publications receiving 18561 citations. Previous affiliations of Jan Blommaert include University of London & University of the Western Cape.

Critical discourse analysis

Abstract: ▪ Abstract This paper provides a survey of critical discourse analysis (CDA), a recent school of discourse analysis that concerns itself with relations of power and inequality in language. CDA explicitly intends to incorporate social-theoretical insights into discourse analysis and advocates social commitment and interventionism in research. The main programmatic features and domains of enquiry of CDA are discussed, with emphasis on attempts toward theory formation by one of CDA's most prominent scholars, Norman Fairclough. Another section reviews the genesis and disciplinary growth of CDA, mentions some of the recent critical reactions to it, and situates it within the wider picture of a new critical paradigm developing in a number of language-oriented (sub) disciplines. In this critical paradigm, topics such as ideology, inequality, and power figure prominently, and many scholars productively attempt to incorporate social-theoretical insights into the study of language.

Discourse: A Critical Introduction

Abstract: This engaging 2005 introduction offers a critical approach to discourse, written by an expert uniquely placed to cover the subject for a variety of disciplines. Organised along thematic lines, the book begins with an outline of the basic principles, moving on to examine the methods and theory of CDA (critical discourse analysis). It covers topics such as text and context, language and inequality, choice and determination, history and process, ideology and identity. Blommaert focuses on how language can offer a crucial understanding of wider aspects of power relations, arguing that critical discourse analysis should specifically be an analysis of the 'effects' of power, what power does to people, groups and societies, and how this impact comes about. Clearly argued, this concise introduction will be welcomed by students and researchers in a variety of disciplines involved in the study of discourse, including linguistics, linguistic anthropology and the sociology of language.

The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

Abstract: 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 process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic communication. In The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Jan Blommaert constructs a theory of changing language in a changing society reconsidering locality, repertoires, competence, history and sociolinguistic inequality.

Language and superdiversity

Abstract: CONTENTS 1. Introduction Karel Arnaut , Jan Blommaert, Ben Rampton, and Massimiliano Spotti Part 1: Sketching the paradigm 2. Language and superdiversity Jan Blommaert and Ben Rampton 3. Super-diversity: Elements of an emerging perspective Karel Arnaut 4. From multilingual classification to translingual ontology: A turning point David Parkin Part II: Sociolinguistic complexity 5. Drilling down to the grain in superdiversity Ben Rampton 6. Buffalaxing the other: Superdiversity in action on YouTube Sirpa Leppanen and Ari Hakkinen 7. Polylanguaging in super-diversity Jens Normann Jorgensen, Martha Sif Karrebaek, Lian Malai Madsen, and Janus Spindler Moller 8. 'A typical gentleman': Metapragmatic stereotypes as systems of distinction Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese 9. Mobility, voice, and symbolic restratification: An ethnography of 'elite migrants' in urban China Jie Dong Part III: Policing complexity 10. Ethnographic linguistic landscape analysis and social change: A case study Jan Blommaert and Ico Maly 11. Superdiversity on the Internet: A case from China Piia Varis and Xuan Wang 12. Translating global experience into institutional models of competency: Linguistic inequalities in the job interview Celia Roberts 13. Sociolinguistic shibboleths at the institutional gate: Language, origin and the construction of asylum seekers' identities Massimiliano Spotti

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

Abstract: Note on Translation Introduction by Michael Holquist Response to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial Staff The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel) The Problem of Speech Genres The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis From Notes Made in 1970-71 Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences Index

Outsiders Studies in the Sociology of Deviance.

Abstract: This 1966 paperback edition of a publication which first appeared in 1963 has by now been widely reviewed as a worthy contribution to the sociological study of deviant behavior. Its current appearance as a paperback is a testimonial both to the quality of the work and to the prominence of deviant behavior in this generation. In general the author places deviance in perspective, identifies types of deviant behavior, considers the role of rule makers and enforcers, and some of the problems in studying deviance. In addition, he develops a sequential model of deviance relying on the concept of career, a concept originally developed in studies of occupations. In his study of a particular kind of deviance, the use of marihuana, the author posits and tests systematically an hypothesis about the genesis of marihuana use for pleasure. The hypothesis traces the sequence of changes in individual attitude

Can the Subaltern Speak

Abstract: In the present paper a research has been done on the essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak’ by’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’. It has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references. Also the criticism has been done by various critiques from various sources which is helpful from examination point of view. The paper has been divided into various contexts with an introduction and the conclusions. Also the references has been written that depicts the sources of criticism.

Language as social semiotic

Abstract: List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Introduction Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai 1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue M.A.K. Halliday 2 Metaphors of Information John Regan 3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language Yoshihiko Ikegami 4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting Jeffrey Ellis 5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning Ruqaiya Hasan Index