Globalization and Language in Contact

James Collins is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY, Albany, USA. Stef Slembrouck is Professor of English Linguistics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, Ghent University, Belgium. Mike Baynham is Professor TESOL in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK.

• 1. Introduction: Scale, migration, and communicative practice, J. Collins (State University of New York, USA), S. Slembrouck (Ghent University, Belgium) and M. Baynham (University of Leeds, UK); 2. Space, scale and accents: constructing migrant identity in Beijing, J. K. Dong (University of East London, UK) & J. Blommaert (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and University of London, UK); 3. Goffman and globalisation: Frame, footing and scale in migration-connected multilingualism, J. Collins (State University of New York, USA) and S. Slembrouck (Ghent University, Belgium); 4. The spaces of language: the everyday practices of Somali refugee and asylum seeker young people, G. Valentine (University of Leeds, UK), D. Sporton & K. Bang Nielsen (University of Sheffield, UK); 5. Immigration in Catalonia: marking territory through language, J. Pujolar (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); 6. 'Either' and 'Both' - the changing concept of living space among Polish post-communist migrants to the United Kingdom", A. Galasinska & O. Kozlowska (University of Wolverhampton, UK); 7. 'Canada meets France': Recasting identities of Canadianess and Francite through global economic exchanges, G. Budach (University of Southampton, UK).; 8. Changing participation in changing practice: Uses of language and literacy among Portuguese migrant Women in the UK, C. Keating (University of Coimbra, Portugal); 9. A relational understanding of language practice: Interacting Time-Spaces in a single ethnographic site, C. B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada); 10. Transnational flows, networks and 'transcultural capital': Reflections on researching migrant networks through linguistic ethnography, U. H. Meinhof (University of Southampton, UK); 11. 'Just one day like today': the notion of scale and the analysis of space time orientation in narratives of displacement, M. Baynham (University of Leeds, UK); 12. Weighing the scales: Recontextualisation as horizontal scaling, C. Kell (University of Waikato, NZ); 13. From space to spatialization in narrative studies, A. De Fina (Georgetown University, USA); Index.