Abstract:Super-diversity discourse is a relatively new, primarily academic discourse whose increasing presence in the domains of social work, institutional policy, urban and national politics, and
“…10-11) is a core principle in thinking through and with superdiversitybut benchmarks are movable, we know. Complex descriptions of the workings of multidimensional, temporally shifting and spatially configured differentiations are central and as some note superdiversity "discards [ …] old binaries of national culture versus minority cultures, natives versus migrants, and local versus global" (Arnaut & Spotti, 2015, p. 1453. The notion was termed by a scholar who does not subscribe to multiculturealism (Vertovec, 2010), it is not about estimating degrees of membership and in terms of its functions, superdiversity is not "purified of race and class".…”
Section: Attacking a Straw Figure By The Name Of Superdiversitymentioning
This article is a response to Willem Schinkel's provocation piece. While mostly agreeing with Schinkel, my response questions Schinkel's commitment to losing immigrant integration as an object of analysis. I point to the integrationist logic with which Schinkel assaults superdiversity, to more broadly question how prescriptive a social science that is 'against immigrant integration' should be.
“…10-11) is a core principle in thinking through and with superdiversitybut benchmarks are movable, we know. Complex descriptions of the workings of multidimensional, temporally shifting and spatially configured differentiations are central and as some note superdiversity "discards [ …] old binaries of national culture versus minority cultures, natives versus migrants, and local versus global" (Arnaut & Spotti, 2015, p. 1453. The notion was termed by a scholar who does not subscribe to multiculturealism (Vertovec, 2010), it is not about estimating degrees of membership and in terms of its functions, superdiversity is not "purified of race and class".…”
Section: Attacking a Straw Figure By The Name Of Superdiversitymentioning
This article is a response to Willem Schinkel's provocation piece. While mostly agreeing with Schinkel, my response questions Schinkel's commitment to losing immigrant integration as an object of analysis. I point to the integrationist logic with which Schinkel assaults superdiversity, to more broadly question how prescriptive a social science that is 'against immigrant integration' should be.
“…First, the very concept of scale implies simultaneity (Arnaut & Spotti 2014), as various levels of meaning-making and recognition are always going on at once. For our framework, scale refers to the various nested or overlapping levels at which semiotic meaning is negotiated simultaneously.…”
Section: Social Media and Simultaneity: A Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the importance of linguistic simultaneity has long been recognized (Woolard 1998), the concept is underexamined in recent analyses of language use in globalized, digital contexts such as social media (but see Arnaut & Spotti 2014). Drawing from an analysis of everyday Facebook posts from youth in Belgrade, Serbia, this article proposes that at least four types of simultaneity-of features (i.e.…”
Although the importance of linguistic simultaneity has long been recognized (Woolard 1998), the concept is underexamined in recent analyses of language use in globalized, digital contexts such as social media. Drawing from an analysis of everyday Facebook posts from youth in Belgrade, Serbia, the article proposes that recognizing four types of simultaneity—of linguistic features, indexical operations, effects, and scale—is key for making sense of social media utterances in political and historical context. On Facebook, Serbian youth mix languages and writing systems in complex ways, adhering to dominant ideologies of language and identity in some ways and flouting them in others. Using the Serbian case as a springboard, along with the four types of simultaneity proposed, I suggest a framework for analyzing language and identity on social media. (Serbia, indexicality, simultaneity, social media, superdiversity, bivalency, youth)*
“…According to Arnaut and Spotti (2015), the sociolinguistics that feeds into superdiversity, while heir to a "linguistics of contact" (Pratt, 1987), builds heavily on the Gumperzian and Hymesian traditions that have been outlined in the previous section. While locating and articulating the agentive and resistant dimensions of multimodal and multilingual languaging, it projects itself to map ideological dynamics in the form of emerging normativities of new, national as well as post-national, regimes of surveying and controlling diversity, heteronormativity, and so on.…”
Section: Superdiversity and Sociolinguisticsmentioning
The chapter tackles key concepts in the study of language and society. It shows how the study of language has shifted its terminology and its conceptual understanding of language use by moving from (individual and societal) bilingualism to multilingualism and languaging, ending with the revitalization of a much abandoned concept, that of language repertoires. Rather than a comprehensive review, the chapter discusses selected key assumptions, topics, and analytical developments in the field. It further examines how the past decades of the study of language use have reached a post-Fishmanian stage of maturity in its theorizing, moving from a sociolinguistics of distribution to questions of speakerhood and praxis within complexity. Last, the chapter considers how superdiversity, the emergent perspective of the study of language, and its theoretical and methodological insights bring new life into old issues of language and social change.
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