The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society

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)