Chronotopic Identity Work: Sociolinguistic Analyses of Cultural and Linguistic Phenomena in Time and Space

This volume consists of 11 sociolinguistic case studies of chronotopic identity work in Denmark, Indonesia, Mongolia, China, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Language, linguistics, education, and culture studies scholars from Europe, Australia, China, and the US examine the relationships between time and space in human interaction and identity work in times of mobility and superdiversity, exploring forms of culture, language, and identity work connected to specific timespace configurations, such as the online-offline nexus, discussing the mixed language practices on Facebook by young adults, identity play on the internet, and bureaucratic personhood and the mass media; global peripheral tourism in the context of social change and cultural heritage; and education in a migration context, with discussion of language and identity in a monolingual setting, authenticity and normativity in communication at school, and how chronotopes include moralized behavioral scripts. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, culture and identity. This volume brings together empirical work that puts flesh on the bones of this rather abstract theorizing, focusing on the discursive construction of chronotopic identities.