East Asian Transnational Migrants and Culture in a Global World

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters
• East Asians are one of the fastest growing transnational migrant populations in the world today. And with East Asian communities thriving across the w... Lees meer

Engaging Otherness

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters
• Across history some of the most creative and fruitful, as well as the most violent, encounters have occurred when civilizations and cultures first hav... Lees meer

Exploring (Im)Mobilities

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 23
• The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in int... Lees meer

The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown

Jackie Jia Lou

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 6
• This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds new light on the impact of... Lees meer

Layover

Constance Russello

• E-book | Engels | Encounters
• Jess Warner is a talented career woman on a trip in Denver when a sudden snowstorm waylays her travel plans. Instead of flying home back east, she is ... Lees meer

The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

David Parkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 19
• This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Af... Lees meer

Unexpected

Constance Russello

• E-book | Engels | Encounters
• Brian Dalton is a confirmed bachelor and a former Olympian in downhill skiing. Tall with short dark hair, blue eyes, and a solid, strong build, he's a... Lees meer

Multilingualism, (Im)Mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 17
• The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity a... Lees meer

Multilingualism, (Im)Mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 17
• The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity a... Lees meer

Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 14
• This book seeks to examine the notions of 'linguistic diversity' and 'hybridity' using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader... Lees meer

Salsa, Language and Transnationalism

Britta Schneider

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 3
• What happens in globalised social contexts if people identify with a language that is not traditionally considered to be 'their' language? This unique... Lees meer

Aspiring to Be Global

Shuang Gao

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 13
• This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of We... Lees meer

Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 12
• This book is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of mean... Lees meer

Dislocations/ Relocations

Mike Baynham, Anna de Fina

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters
• The centrality of narrative analysis in the investigation of social processes and practices has become an established fact in the human sciences. The ... Lees meer

Touched

Paula Wiseman

• E-book | Engels | Encounters
• Secrets come in all sorts and sizes. Sometimes, they are as sweet as an engagement ring in a nervous boy's pocket. Other times ... they threaten to sh... Lees meer

The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia

Eric Louis Russell

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 16
• Through an analysis of the discourse practices of populist Far Right groups in France, Italy and Belgian Flanders, this book makes a ground-breaking c... Lees meer

Dialogues with Ethnography

Jan Blommaert

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 10
• Ethnography must be seen as a full theoretical system, not just as a method. In this book, a range of authors are examined, whose work was either inst... Lees meer

Transcultural Voices

Jaspal Naveel Singh

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 22
• This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. Through a combination of linguist... Lees meer

Transcultural Voices

Jaspal Naveel Singh

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 22
• This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. Through a combination of linguist... Lees meer

The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia

Eric Louis Russell

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 16
• Through an analysis of the discourse practices of populist Far Right groups in France, Italy and Belgian Flanders, this book makes a ground-breaking c... Lees meer

Chronotopic Identity Work

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 18
• The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, ... Lees meer

Ubïq, a Mental Odyssey

Mathieu Briand, Daniel Foucard

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters
• The work of French multimedia artist Mathieu Briand confounds our preconceptions of visual language by drawing on sources outside traditional art prac... Lees meer

Memories and Violence

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters
• From post-apartheid South Africa to post-Pinochet Chile, there are various states and communities which all face the challenge of remembering the viol... Lees meer

Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction Through Linguistic Capital

Mark Fifer Seilhamer

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 15
• This book presents the narratives of four Taiwanese young women, all proficient in English, set against the background of the dynamics of multilingual... Lees meer