Dialogues with Ethnography

Jan Blommaert is Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Sociolinguistics of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity (Multilingual Matters, 2013).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: Ethnography as Couter-Hegemony: Remarks on Epistemology and MethodChapter 2: Obituary: Dell H. Hymes (1927-2009)Chapter 3: Ethnography and Democracy: Hymes’ Political Theory of LanguageChapter 4: Ethnopoetics as Functional Reconstruction: Dell Hymes’ Narrative View of the WorldChapter 5: Grassroots Historiography and the Problem of Voice: Tshibumba’s Histoire Du ZaïreChapter 6: Historical Bodies and Historical SpaceChapter 7: Semiotic and Spatial Scope: Towards a Materialist SemioticsChapter 8: Pierre Bourdieu and Language in SocietyChapter 9: Combining Surveys and Ethnographies in the Study of Rapid Social ChangeChapter 10: Data Sharing As Entextualization PracticeChapter 11: Chronotopes, Scales and Complexity in the Study of Language in SocietyChapter 12: Marxism and Urban CultureChapter 13: On Scope and Depth in Linguistic Ethnography: A CommentaryReferences

Once again, Jan Blommaert advances the field of sociolinguistics in this indispensable collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays on the importance of ethnography in helping us make sense of language, culture, and society in our complex and fascinating world. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will become essential reading for its intellectual rigor, scope and depth.