ISBN:
9781351000611
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (157 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Linguistics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Group identity
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Space and time in language
;
Immigrants-Language-Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription Conventions -- 1 Language, Migration, and Sociological Imagination -- The Book in Space and Time -- Theoretical Notions -- About this Book -- Methods and Participants -- Outline of the Chapters -- 2 Chronotopes as a Theory of Mobility -- Conceptualizing 'Chronotopes' -- Chronotopes and Migration -- 3 Orientations to the Homeland -- The Chronotopic Multiplicity of the Homeland -- Uzbek and Iranian Azerbaijani Diasporic Communities in the United States -- Imagining Ethnolinguistic Identity in Diaspora -- Conclusion -- 4 Orientations to the Host Country -- The Chronotopic Multiplicity of the Host Country -- Migration, Trajectories, and Images of Success -- Imagining the Loss of the Past in the Future -- Conclusion -- 5 Chronotopes, Power, and Marginality -- Powerful Chronotopes: Invocation and Interpellation -- Power Differentials between Chronotopes -- Scaling Conflicting, Powerful Chronotopes -- Being Heard through Powerful Chronotopes -- Conclusion -- 6 Transforming and Updating Transnational Imaginaries -- Rechronotopization, Longing, and Belonging -- Rechronotopized Images of the Homeland -- Seeking Rechronotopization -- Conclusion -- 7 A Theory that Is Life -- References -- Index.
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