TY - JOUR
T1 - Detecting social changes in times of Superdiversity
T2 - An Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Ostend in Belgium
AU - Maly, Ico
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Superdiversity, on the one hand, calls for new frames, concepts, and methodologies to deal with a fluid reality characterized by rapid (social) changes. On the other hand, we also have a need to broaden our scope beyond the heavy focus on the urban metropolis as the locus of superdiversity. With this paper I want to contribute to the research addressing these challenges by infusing existing research within Linguistic Landscape Studies with a semiotic and ethnographic perspective and add to our existing knowledge of superdiversity by focusing on a ‘small’ Belgian city called Ostend instead of a cosmopolitan world city with millions of inhabitants. I argue that Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis (ELLA) enables us to describe, quite accurately, rapid social changes in complex superdiverse neighborhoods. Moreover, ELLA enables us to move beyond a mere synchronic picture of superdiverse neighborhoods and sketch a ‘stratigraphy’ and a historical perspective on them.
AB - Superdiversity, on the one hand, calls for new frames, concepts, and methodologies to deal with a fluid reality characterized by rapid (social) changes. On the other hand, we also have a need to broaden our scope beyond the heavy focus on the urban metropolis as the locus of superdiversity. With this paper I want to contribute to the research addressing these challenges by infusing existing research within Linguistic Landscape Studies with a semiotic and ethnographic perspective and add to our existing knowledge of superdiversity by focusing on a ‘small’ Belgian city called Ostend instead of a cosmopolitan world city with millions of inhabitants. I argue that Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis (ELLA) enables us to describe, quite accurately, rapid social changes in complex superdiverse neighborhoods. Moreover, ELLA enables us to move beyond a mere synchronic picture of superdiverse neighborhoods and sketch a ‘stratigraphy’ and a historical perspective on them.
U2 - 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1131149
DO - 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1131149
M3 - Article
SN - 1469-9451
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
ER -