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"This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose"--

This ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. It is a creative curation of field notes, transcripts, audio recordings, video recordings, conversations, and observations. The ethnographic drama tells a story of political tension in everyday life at a time of austerity.

"This highly original book brings compelling narratives of migration and social diversity vividly to life. At once a play script and an outcome of ethnographic research, this book is a rich resource for the interpretation and representation of life in the multilingual city. This text is an ethnographic drama based on audio-recordings, field notes, and interviews collected at Chinese Community Centre, Birmingham, as part of a research project which examined communication in multilingual, superdiverse cities. Characters are fictionalised versions of community centre workers, clients, and researchers who agreed to participate in the research."--

"In this book research in process and research findings are represented in a play script which brings vividly to life both ethnographic research methods and communication in the world of sport. This highly original book brings innovation and imagination to the representation of language in social life"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Language and superdiversity: An interdisciplinary perspective -- Superdiversity -- Language -- Language and mobility -- Interaction ritual -- Emergence -- Conviviality -- Everyday encounters and inequality -- Translanguaging -- Heteroglossia -- A theory of practice -- Linguistic ethnography -- Summary -- Note -- References -- Part 1: Language and superdiversity -- Chapter 1: Repertoires, registers and linguistic diversity -- Introduction: The reemergence of registers and repertoires -- Historical developments: Repertoires from totality of forms to lived experience -- Core issues and topics: Register from specialised vocabulary to cultural models of action -- New debates: Translingual repertoires and registers -- Conclusion: Registers, repertoires, multimodal resources and cultural practices -- Further reading -- References -- Chapter 2: Linguistic (super)diversity, post-multilingualism and Translanguaging moments -- Introduction -- Linguistic diversity revisited -- The mobility turn and the post-multilingualism challenges -- Translanguaging and the need to focus on 'small' moments in the era of big data -- References -- Chapter 3: Superdiversity perspective and the sociolinguistics of social media -- Introduction -- The superdiversity perspective and social media practices -- Historical perspectives -- Core issues and topics -- New debates -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- References -- Chapter 4: Superdiversity as a lens to understand complexities -- Introduction -- Historical perspectives: from temporary workers to multiculturalism and beyond -- Superdiversity as a qualitative transition: diversification of diversity

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this growing area, the linguistic analysis of interaction in superdiverse cities. Developed as a descriptive term to account for the increasingly stratified processes and effects of migration in Western Europe, ?superdiversity? has the potential to contribute to an enhanced understanding of mobility, complexity, and change, with theoretical, practical, global, and methodological reach. With seven sections edited by leading names, the handbook includes 35 state-of-the art chapters from international authorities.

In this paper, we discuss the affordances of an approach to the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research, which utilizes the tools and methods of the theatre. Taking as an example a team ethnographic research project conducted across four cities in the UK, we discuss the process of creating drama from material observed as social practice. Drawing on observations in a welfare advice centre in a Chinese community centre, and a city-based volleyball team, we propose that theatre techniques enable audiences and academic researchers to see communicative encounters in a new light. We propose that ethnographic drama offers three opportunities in particular: (i) it has the potential to make available outcomes of research beyond the academy; (ii) it has the potential to discover understandings of ethnographic material which remain latent in accounts that do not involve performance; and (iii) it has the capacity to democratize voice, privileging the voices of research participants rather than those of academic researchers. Ethnographic drama thus offers considerable potential in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research. ; Output Status: Forthcoming/Available Online

The British citizenship ceremony marks the legal endpoint of the naturalisation process. While the citizenship ceremony may be a celebration, it can also be a final examination. Using an ethnographically-informed case study, this article follows one candidate, 'W', through the naturalisation process in the UK. W is a migrant Yemeni at the end of the naturalisation process. Bakhtin's notion of "ideological becoming" offers an analytic orientation into how competing discourses may operate. This article focuses on the role of what Bakhtin describes as "authoritative discourse" in the citizenship ceremony, in particular the Oath/Affirmation of Allegiance which citizenship candidates are required to recite. Success in the ceremony is dependent on how individuals negotiate authoritative discourse. This study follows W and highlights the complexities and negotiations of authoritative discourse in a citizenship ceremony.