Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

• 1. Sociolinguists as sociologists2. Durkheim’s social fact2.1 Norms and concepts2.2 Integration and anomie2.3 Durkheim’s impact and the challenge of 'Rational Choice'3. Sociolinguistics and the social fact: Avec Durkheim3.1 Language as a normative collective system: ordered indexicality3.2 Language variation: dialects, accents & languaging3.3 Inequality, voice, repertoire3.4 Language, the social fact4. What Durkheim could not have known: Après Durkheim4.1 Preliminary: A theory of vernacular globalization4.2 An indexical-polynomic theory of social norms4.3 A genre theory of social action4.4 A microhegemonic theory of identity4.5 A theory of “light” social groups4.6 A polycentric theory of social integration4.7 Constructures4.8 Anachronism as power5. The sociological re-imaginationReferences

Blommaert's book is a theoretical tour-de-force, entertaining, challenging and immensely enlightening. It encompasses a wide swath of thinking about the relationship between language and society, both in history and now.

Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

• 1. Sociolinguists as sociologists2. Durkheim’s social fact2.1 Norms and concepts2.2 Integration and anomie2.3 Durkheim’s impact and the challenge of 'Rational Choice'3. Sociolinguistics and the social fact: Avec Durkheim3.1 Language as a normative collective system: ordered indexicality3.2 Language variation: dialects, accents & languaging3.3 Inequality, voice, repertoire3.4 Language, the social fact4. What Durkheim could not have known: Après Durkheim4.1 Preliminary: A theory of vernacular globalization4.2 An indexical-polynomic theory of social norms4.3 A genre theory of social action4.4 A microhegemonic theory of identity4.5 A theory of “light” social groups4.6 A polycentric theory of social integration4.7 Constructures4.8 Anachronism as power5. The sociological re-imaginationReferences

Blommaert's book is a theoretical tour-de-force, entertaining, challenging and immensely enlightening. It encompasses a wide swath of thinking about the relationship between language and society, both in history and now.

Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

• 1. Sociolinguists as sociologists2. Durkheim’s social fact2.1 Norms and concepts2.2 Integration and anomie2.3 Durkheim’s impact and the challenge of 'Rational Choice'3. Sociolinguistics and the social fact: Avec Durkheim3.1 Language as a normative collective system: ordered indexicality3.2 Language variation: dialects, accents & languaging3.3 Inequality, voice, repertoire3.4 Language, the social fact4. What Durkheim could not have known: Après Durkheim4.1 Preliminary: A theory of vernacular globalization4.2 An indexical-polynomic theory of social norms4.3 A genre theory of social action4.4 A microhegemonic theory of identity4.5 A theory of “light” social groups4.6 A polycentric theory of social integration4.7 Constructures4.8 Anachronism as power5. The sociological re-imaginationReferences

Blommaert's book is a theoretical tour-de-force, entertaining, challenging and immensely enlightening. It encompasses a wide swath of thinking about the relationship between language and society, both in history and now.