Farzad Karimzad, Lydia Catedral

Chronotopes and Migration

Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a critical contribution to the conversation surrounding sociocultural-linguistic uses of the chronotope, demonstrating not only its applicability to theorizing migration, but also to theorizing language and social life more broadly.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Linguistics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 228mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780367723705
• ISBN-10: 0367723700
• Artikelnr.: 69194055

Autorenporträt

Farzad Karimzad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Salisbury University, USA. His research focuses on theorizing context and semiosis in relation to issues of normativity, mobility, and marginality, and the implications of these theories for sociolinguistic and anthropological studies of language and behavior. His work has been published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Lydia Catedral is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong. She is a sociolinguist whose research focuses on the intersections between language, identity, and morality across time and space, and the implications for marginalized groups including transnational migrants and LGBTQ Christians. She has published in Language in Society, Language and Communication, and Discourse and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Language, Migration, and Sociological Imagination
2. Chronotopes as a Theory of Mobility
3. Orientations to the Homeland
4. Orientation to the Host Country
5. Chronotopes, Power and Marginality
6. Transforming and Updating Transnational Imaginaries
7. A Theory that is Life