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Introduction: Language and globalization in South and Central Asian spaces

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: In this introduction, we outline our approach to the two main themes this interdisciplinary special issue brings together – language and globalization, and South and Central Asian spaces. Arguing for the importance of exploring these topics from multiple, complementary disciplinary angles (sociolinguistic, anthropological and historical), we delineate a conceptualization of language and globalization which both acknowledges the inextricable relationship between language (use and ideology) and processes of globalization (past and present); as well as the challenges this relationship poses for linguistic research. We thereby adopt a viewpoint which underscores the importance of not

Source: International Journal of the Sociology of Language

DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2017-0018

Authors: Brook Bolander, Till Mostowlansky

Institutions: University of Freiburg, University of Hong Kong

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Universität Zürich

OpenAlex ID: W2624666166

FWCI: 2.826

Cites: 14

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10