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OverviewIn a world dominated by the visual, this book presents how a focus on the sounded experience and acts of listening may carve a way to reformulate emerging publics, create space for critical multilingual engagement and deepen recognition of emancipatory practices. Examining the emerging logics and rhythms among a group of post-EU accession UK Polish migrants, this book focuses on the semiotic processes through which contemporary moving bodies and communities place themselves in sociolinguistic landscapes. It considers how they develop metrics to account for sociolinguistic change and authenticate their projects and practices in transnational timespace. In doing so, the book brings power differentials to the centre of language and objectivity debates and foregrounds material semiotics as an approach that enables a new collective potential and redefinition of sociolinguistic listening. By connecting research on scale in migration contexts with studies of embodied soundwork and of stance in semiotics, this book highlights how a focus on the sounded sign may bring us closer to the ways in which bodies and meanings are (re)made, and collective doing and thinking are formed in the globalised world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kinga Kozminska (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781350331303ISBN 10: 1350331309 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 11 January 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this highly innovative and well-researched book, Kozminska brings new, brilliant insights into the sociolinguistics of globalisation. Through the prism of Polish recent graduates and young professionals in the UK, she demonstrates the dynamic enmeshing of language and positionality in transnational spaces. -- Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Beautifully written, cogently argued, and politically engaged, this book is a ground-breaking contribution to sociolinguistics. It is a theoretical and analytical tour de force that forces the reader to completely reconsider the notions of sounding/listening in relation to mobility from a material semiotic perspective. A must read! -- Tommaso M. Milani, Pennsylvania State University, USA Author InformationKinga Kozminska is Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication at Birkbeck, University of London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |