Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Coupland "Sociolinguistics & Globalization"

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- history of "globalization" in "sociolinguistics"
theme - based on sociolgingustics' own priorities:
"being accountable to language data in social environments, pursuing issues of social value in language variation, and critiquing the
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linguistic and discursive bases of social inequality.
feels this is a call to look at the global.

"Globalization is proving to be the salient context for an increasing number of local sociolinguistic experiences"

global -shifting  imprints on - sociolinguistic experiences; (social networks, social identities, senses of intimacy, and community, differentials of power and control 

papers

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community interdependence, compression of time and space, disembedding, commodification (linked through all)

new global language to deal with economic interdependencies

value profiles - language commodities
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Cosmo - inderdependent and commodified

disembedding, re embedding  (French, women/ Japanese rap)

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English as "the" language - but globaly contextualized in many ways

House - often functions, discursively, in a utilitarian manner

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continuing consumerism/ commodification




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