Language and Semiotic Mobility (original) (raw)

Springer eBooks, 2021

Abstract

This chapter discusses language in relation to mobility. It puzzles about how we can talk about what happens to language when individuals move across time and space in an age of globalisation. Some of the earlier attempts of discussing semiotic mobility in relation to language and globalisation come from (Blommaert in The sociolinguistics of globalization, Cambridge University Press, 2010) where he emphasises the usefulness of sociolinguistic scales. In response to this (Canagarajah in Translingual practice: Global Englishes and cosmopolitan relations, Routledge, 2013), argues against the rigid nature of scale theorisation by opening conceptual doors for individual agency. Badwan’s research with mobile languaging subjects (Badwan in Negotiating rates of exchange: Arab academic sojourners’ sociolinguistic trajectories in the UK, PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2015; Badwan and Simpson in Applied Linguistic Review, 2019) presents an ecological orientation to theorising semiotic mobility. This chapter presents these different views on language and mobility and what they could possibly mean for the mobile languaging subjects.

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