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

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

Aspiring to Be Global

Shuang Gao

• Hardcover | 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

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

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 eastern... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration

Dong Jie

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 1
• Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are the... 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

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

Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen

Sabrina Billings

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 2
• Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspec... 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

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

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