Migrant Communication Enterprises: Regimentation and Resistance: 3 - Brossura

Dalmau, Maria Sabat I.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783092173 ISBN 13: 9781783092178

Casa editrice: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

This critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores "locutorios" (ethnic call shops) in Barcelona, where migrant populations mobilise to challenge the global private telecommunications sector as well as present-day governments. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid communicative practices, and into their own linguistic hierarchies and non-mainstream sociolinguistic orders.

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Recensione:

In her in-depth and, at times, moving ethnography of a Barcelona locutorio, Maria Sabaté i Dalmau affords us a unique and fascinating glimpse of migrants' multilingual practices, connections and mediations normally hidden from view. This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on languages, mobilities and globalization. --Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong

Maria Sabaté I Dalmau's work is a most welcome contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization, particularly at the intersection of migration, multilingualism and communication technologies. This book makes a compelling account of how states and the telecommunication industries attempt to control and contain migrants in how they use languages or how they access mobile communications, even as migrants develop their own forms of sociability to cope with these restrictions or circumvent them. --Joan Pujolar Cos, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

L'autore:

Maria Sabaté i Dalmau is a lecturer in the English and Linguistics Department at the Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Her research interests include the study of communication and language practices in bilingual and multilingual, migration and language minority contexts, particularly in Catalonia.

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• Editore: Multilingual Matters Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783092173
• ISBN 13: 9781783092178
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 206