Global Linguistic Flows

By Awad Ibrahim

Subjects: Group identity, Linguistics, Social Identification, Culture and globalization, Éducation dans la culture populaire, Language and culture, Hip-hop, Education in popular culture, Langage et culture, Globalization, Culture et mondialisation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Intercultural communication, Multilingualism, Identité collective, Sociolinguistics, Influence

Description: "The book engages complex processes such as transnationalism, (im)migration, cultural flow, and diaspora in an effort to expand current theoretical approaches to language choice and agency, speech style and stylization, codeswitching and language mixing, crossing and sociolinguistic variation, and language use and globalization. Moving throughout the Global Hip Hop Nation, through scenes as diverse as Hong Kong's urban center, Germany's Mannheim inner-city district of Weststadt, the Brazilian favelas, the streets of Lagos and Dar es Salaam, and the hoods of the San Francisco Bay Area, this global intellectual cipha breaks new ground in the ethnographical study of langauge and popular culture."--Jacket.