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This Oxford Handbook challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. In 27 chapters, the book challenges the modernist positivist perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the ultimate authority. Instead, it offers a critical poststructuralist perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to the
emergence of dominant sociolinguistic concepts and develops new theoretical and methodological tools that challenge these dominant concepts. The contributors to this volume take this critical poststructuralist
perspective as a starting point for engaging in explorations of a range of sociolinguistic topics including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic landscapes and multimodality. Each of the contributors provides a critical overview of the limits of modernist positivist perspectives on their topic and offer ways of theorizing and researching their topic in ways that are aligned with a critical poststructuralist perspective. The book also provides
a global perspective on these issues with contributors focused on North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Africa. Together, the interdisciplinary and global contributions reveal the limits of
conventional approaches to sociolinguistics and offer a glimpse into directions for the future of the field.
This Oxford Handbook challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. In 27 chapters, the book challenges the modernist positivist perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the ultimate authority. Instead, it offers a critical poststructuralist perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to the
emergence of dominant sociolinguistic concepts and develops new theoretical and methodological tools that challenge these dominant concepts. The contributors to this volume take this critical poststructuralist
perspective as a starting point for engaging in explorations of a range of sociolinguistic topics including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic landscapes and multimodality. Each of the contributors provides a critical overview of the limits of modernist positivist perspectives on their topic and offer ways of theorizing and researching their topic in ways that are aligned with a critical poststructuralist perspective. The book also provides
a global perspective on these issues with contributors focused on North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Africa. Together, the interdisciplinary and global contributions reveal the limits of
conventional approaches to sociolinguistics and offer a glimpse into directions for the future of the field.
Introduction: Language and Society: A critical poststructuralist
perspective (Ofelia García, Nelson Flores, Max Spotti)
1. Language and society: Historical overview and emergence of a
field of study (Florian Coulmas)
2. Language, imperialism and the modern nation-state system:
Implications for language rights (Stephen May)
3. Language and political economy (Alfonso Del Percio, Mi-Cha
Flubacher & Alex Duchene)
4. Language and power (Luisa Martín-Rojo)
5. Language ideologies (Jonathan Rosa & Christa Burdick)
6. Language policy and local practices (Alastair Pennycook)
7. Language, migration, diaspora: Challenging the big battalions of
groupism (Finex Ndhlovu)
8. Bi-multilingualism, globalization and super-diversity: Toward
Sociolinguistic repertoire (Max Spotti & Jan Blommaert)
9. Diglossia and beyond (Jürgen Jaspers)
10. Language shift and sustainability: Critical discourses and
beyond (Melissa Engman & Kendall King)
11. Discourses of endangerment from mother tongues to machine
readability (Robert Moore)
12. Sign languages (H-Dirksen L. Bauman & Joseph Murray)
13. Multiliteracies & Transcultural Education (Lynn Mario Menezes
de Souza)
14. Urban languages in African Contexts: Toward a multimodal
approach to urban languages (Busi Makoni)
15. Indigenous peoples and their languages (Pia Lane & Miki
Makihara)
16. Entry Visa Denied: The Construction of Symbolic Language
Borders in Educational Settings (Guadalupe Valdés)
17. Linguistic profiling and discrimination (John Baugh)
18. From Gerontolinguistics to Elderspeak: Sociolinguistic myths
(Sinfree Makoni)
19. Language and racialization (Anne Charity Hudley)
20. Language and sexuality (Tomasso Milani)
21. Linguistic landscapes (Luk Van Mensel, Mieke Vandenbrouke &
Robert Blackwood)
22. Multimodality (Elisabetta Adami)
23. The Internet, language and virtual interactions (Piia Varis and
Tom van Neunen)
24. Mediatization and the language of journalism (Tom Van Hout &
Peter Burger)
25. Work (Melissa Moyer)
26. Bilingual Education (Nelson Flores)
Conclusion: Moving the study of Language and Society into the
future (Nelson Flores, Max Spotti and Ofelia García)
Ofelia García is Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs in Urban
Education and Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at The
Graduate Center of The City University of New York. She has
published widely in the areas of sociology of language,
multilingualism, and bilingual education. She is the General Editor
of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and
co-editor of Language Policy.
Nelson Flores is Associate Professor in the Educational Linguistics
Division at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of
Education. His research involves the study of the historical and
contemporary instantiation of raciolinguistic ideologies, where
language and race are co-constructed in ways that marginalize
racialized communities. He has published his work in numerous
peer-review journals including Harvard Educational Review, TESOL
Quarterly and
International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Massimiliano Spotti is Assistant Professor at the Department of
Cultural Studies at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also
deputy director of Babylon - Centre for the Study of Superdiversity
at the same institution. His research tackles the theme of asylum
seeking and identity construction through the analysis of social
media influence on the doings of asylum seekers. He has published
his work in several peer-reviewed journals including Linguistics
and Education,
Diversities, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, and
Applied Linguistics Review as well as co-editor of the Volume
Language and Superdiversity (Routledge 2016).
This collection of chapters revolutionizes the field not only
through difficult conversations, but also by "leveling the playing
field" by including contributions from established scholars,
post-doctoral scholars, and advanced graduate students alike.
Additionally, this work never allows the reader to forget about the
inherent interrelatedness of people and their language usage,
something often lost in otherwise more abstract linguistic
texts.
*Troy E Spier, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, LINGUIST List*
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