Chronotopic Identity Work

The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, culture and identity. This volume brings together empirical work that puts flesh on the bones of this rather abstract chronotopical theorizing, especially focusing on the discursive construction of chronotopic identities. The case studies in this volume address chronotopic identity work in several sites (in Denmark, Indonesia, Mongolia, China, Belgium and The Netherlands). The book will be of interest to students and researchers in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as related fields such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.

Sjaak Kroon is Emeritus Professor of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at the Department of Culture Studies of Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His main research interests and publications are in the field of linguistic and cultural diversity, language policy, and language education in the context of globalization and superdiversity.

Jos Swanenberg is a professor of Diversity in Language and Culture and Academic Director of the Master Culture Studies at the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University. He is also affiliated as a senior researcher of Linguistics and Language Variation at the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam. He is the co-editor and co-author of the books Language policies and the politics of language practices with Massimiliano Spotti and Jan Blommaert (2022), and Chronotopic Identity Work: Sociolinguistic Analyses of Cultural and Linguistic Phenomena in Time and Space with Sjaak Kroon (2020).