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Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the complex histories of a place. The book can be read in many ways: as a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of linguistic landscape; as one of the first monographs which addresses the sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social life.

Migration. Refugees --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociology of culture --- interculturaliteit --- Sociolinguistics --- Sociology of minorities --- interculturele communicatie --- Mass communications --- Belgium --- Antwerp --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Meertalige communicatie --- #KVHA:Superdiversiteit --- #KVHA:Etnografie --- #KVHA:Meertaligheid --- Multilingualism --- Languages in contact --- City dwellers --- Linguistic minorities --- Ethnicity --- Language. --- Antwerp (Belgium) --- Languages. --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Minority languages --- Minorities --- Areal linguistics --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- City population --- City residents --- Dwellers, City --- Residents of cities --- Urban dwellers --- Urban people --- Urban population --- Urban residents --- Urbanites --- Persons --- Population --- Language --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Political aspects --- Anṿerśah (Belgium) --- Anṭṿerpen (Belgium) --- Antwerpen (Belgium) --- Antuerpia (Belgium) --- Anvers (Belgium) --- Anversa (Belgium) --- Antwerpia (Belgium) --- Anwerpia (Belgium) --- Andowerpia (Belgium) --- Amberes (Belgium) --- Antverpia (Belgium) --- Ambivaritum (Belgium) --- Anderpus (Belgium) --- Andevorpum (Belgium) --- Andoverpis (Belgium) --- Andoverpum (Belgium) --- Antwerpha (Belgium) --- Antwerpium (Belgium) --- Antwerpo (Belgium) --- Antwerpum (Belgium) --- Handoverpia (Belgium) --- Andwerpa (Belgium) --- Antverpis (Belgium) --- Antverpo (Belgium) --- Antverpum (Belgium) --- אנטווערפען --- Minoritized languages --- Antwerp. --- complexity. --- conviviality. --- ethnography. --- linguistic landscapes. --- linguistic landscaping. --- migration. --- multilingual signs. --- multiliteracies. --- multimodality. --- sociolinguistic landscapes. --- superdiversity.