Language and Culture on the Margins

Chapter 1

Introduction:

Language and culture on the margins

Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg

Chapter 2

Redefining the sociolinguistic 'local':

Examples from Tanzania

Jan Blommaert

Chapter 3

Reterritorialization and the construction of margins and centers through imitation in Indonesia

Zane Goebel

Chapter 4

English in Asmara as a changing reflection of online globalization

Sjaak Kroon, Jenny-Louise Van der Aa and Yonas Mesfun Asfaha

Chapter 5

Gender performativity in virtual space:

Transglossic language practices of young women in country Bangladesh

Shaila Sultana

Chapter 6

The language and culture of New Kids:

Appreciation of and familiarity with online Brabantish identities

Jos Swanenberg

Chapter 7

Literacy acquisition and mobile phones in a South African township:

The story of Sarah

Fie Velghe

Chapter 8

Scaling queer performativities of genders and sexualities in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro in digital and face-to-face semiotic encounters

Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes, Branca Falabella Fabricio and Thayse Figueira Guimaraes

Chapter 9

Expanding marginality:

Linguascaping a Transcarpathian spa in south-western Ukraine

Petteri Laihonen and Istvan Csernicsko

Chapter 10

Globalized linguistic resources at work:

A case study of a local supermarket in Finnish Lapland

Massimiliano Spotti

Chapter 11

Calypso music, globalization and plurilingualism in the Dutch Caribbean

Gregory Richardson

Chapter 12

Consuming English in rural China:

Lookalike language and the semiotics of aspiration

Xuan Wang