Chronotopic Identity Work

Sjaak Kroon is Professor of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the editor (with Jos Swanenberg) of Language and Culture on the Margins: Local/Global Interactions (2019, Routledge).Jos Swanenberg is Professor of Diversity in Language and Culture at the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University and adviser on heritage, language and culture at Erfgoed Brabant (Cultural Heritage Foundation) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

• 1. Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg: Introducing Chronotopic Identity Work2. Jan Blommaert: Are Chronotopes Helpful?3. Sender Dovchin: Inverted Youth Language in Mongolia as Macroscopic and Microscopic Chronotopes4. Kunming Li & Jan Blommaert: The Care of the Selfie: Ludic Chronotopes of Baifumei in Online China 5. Zane Goebel: The Mass Mediation of Chronotopic Identity in a Changing Indonesia6. Shuang Gao: Chronotopic Identities and Social Change in Yangshuo, China7. Xuan Wang & Sjaak Kroon: The Chronotopes of Authenticity: Designing the Tujia Heritage in China8. Martha Sif Karrebæk and Janus Spindler Møller: Languages and Regimes of Communication: Students’ Struggles with Norms and Identities through Chronotopic Work9. Jos Swanenberg: Out of order: Authenticity and Normativity in Communication at School10. Malgorzata Szabla: The Moral Economy of Chronotopical Identities: A Case Study in a Polish Community in Antwerp11. Anna De Fina: Insights and Challenges of Chronotopic Analysis for Sociolinguistics

With a rich and stimulating array of case studies across peripheral sociolinguistic contexts and domains, Chronotopic Identity Work skillfully demonstrates the utility of the Bakhtinian concept of chronotope to understand and appreciate the complexity of contemporary society. It is an essential reading for researchers working on language, identity and globalization.