Language and Superdiversity

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 Leppaenen and Ari Haekkinen

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