Massimiliano Spotti
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 222500 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Massimiliano Spotti |
| NOMBRES | Massimiliano |
| APELLIDO | Spotti |
| FIRMA | SPOTTI M |
| AFILIACIONES | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2907-2174 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 394 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Superdiversity and Multilingual Education
This entry offers the reader an overview of the changes that have taken place in multilingual education and its policing during an era characterized by superdiversity. In so doing, it stresses the conceptual wealth that superdiversity holds for language and education studies in general and for multilingual education in particular. Last, it shows how superdiversity has managed to have multilingual education move away from a group‐based understandi…
Epistemological/Ontological Interview
Sociolinguistics and Superdiversity
This chapter first takes stock of the prolific relationship of superdiversity with sociolinguistics (Blommaert and Rampton 2011; Creese and Blackledge 2018) and the advancements superdiversity has helped the field make in reshaping its conceptual wealth and methodological armour. From there, the chapter reflects on the notion of “combinatorial spaces” (Arnaut, Karrebaek, Spotti and Blommaert 2017), using it as a lens that—once appraised from an e…
Exploring (Im)mobilities
The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
Interactional regimes of sociolinguistic behaviour
Drawing on the notion of sociolinguistic scaling, the present contribution argues for an understanding of an asylum-seeking centre as a unit of inquiry in which sociolinguistic repertoires are played out during intercultural communicative encounters. The contribution shows how the centre’s spaces encapsulate time- and space-bound interactional regimes and language hierarchies. Taken as such, the different rooms that make up the centre, e. g. the …
Scaling practices in language encounters
Globalization on the Margins
Reflecting on almost three decades of postsocialist transformations, the second edition of Globalization on the Margins explores continuities and changes in Central Asian education development since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, with a particular focus on the developments that took place since the production of the first edition in 2011. Rather than viewing these transformations in isolation, the authors place their analyses within…
Enregisterment into Dutchness
This contribution focuses on the discursive construction of refugees within the process of civic integration in the Netherlands. The study – that uses interpretive ethnographic means of data collection and analysis – takes as its case in point the Common Room, a communal building belonging to a regionally supported foundation meant to facilitate – through the support of volunteers – the integration of refugees in the South of the Netherlands. Fol…
Educational environments as contested multicultural discursive spaces
Classrooms and schools, whether falling in or outside regular education, endorse the task of presenting those who attend them with legitimate knowledge in a given historical context (Young 2009). T
“It’s All About Naming Things Right”
The chapter deals with the process of identity (mis)recognition that has led to the rejection of an asylum seeking application. Spotti addresses discrepancies between the story narrated by the asylum seeking applicant and the type of factual knowledge sought by the officials judging the truthfulness of his identity claim, as well as between official naming practices and the locally based naming of things used by the applicant. The case documented…
New speakers of new and old languages
This paper explores the intersection of new speakers in conditions of globalisation led mobility and it investigates the implications the phenomena may have for language policy making. It first describes two historical phases in language policy development that are closely related to a sociolinguistics of stability. In this, it criticises how present-day language policy is attached to specific time and space constraints whose focus is a by now ou…
Complexity, mobility, migration
This chapter argues that a sociolinguistics of migration addressing superdiversity needs to address the real complexity of communicative situations as its object. The chapter discusses that it should strive to document such complex situations in some detail. It shows how this sociolinguistics may produce new methodological approaches in which change, not synchronic state of events, becomes the central object of inquiry. The chapter zooms in on an…
Beyond languages, beyond modalities
This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of language use, moving from bilingualism to multilingualism and (trans)languaging, have resulted in the revitalisation of the concept of language repertoires. We discuss key assumptions and analytical developments that have shaped the sociolinguistic study of signed and spoken…
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society
It challenges the basic tenets of sociolinguistics as we know it. Each chapter provides the strength and limitations of positivist modernist perspective advocatiing for a step toward post-structuralist critical sociolinguistics
Language and Political Economy
Mediatization and the Language of Journalism
At the intersection of applied linguistics and journalism studies lies media linguistics.This emerging subdisciplinary label is an umbrella term for the study of mass mediated language use, which, for the purposes of this chapter, is restricted to news media: public or private institutions of mass communication that produce and spread public information commoditized as news.Two issues stand out in the literature on media linguistics (and beyond).…
Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Globalization, and Superdiversity
The chapter tackles key concepts in the study of language and society.It shows how the study of language has shifted its terminology and its conceptual understanding of language use by moving from (individual and societal) bilingualism to multilingualism and languaging, ending with the revitalization of a much abandoned concept, that of language repertoires.Rather than a comprehensive review, the chapter discusses selected key assumptions, topics…
Language and Superdiversity
This paper explores the scope for research on language and super-diversity.12 Following a protracted process of paradigm shift, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology are well placed to engage with the contemporary social changes associated with super-diversity. After a brief introductory discussion of what super-diversity entails, the paper outlines key theoretical and methodological developments in language study: named languages have now…
Mediating cultural diversity in a globalized public space
Globalization in the margins
Work on globalization has been concentrated on typical sites where features and phenomena are abundantly available: the huge contemporary metropolis with its explosive and conspicuous diversity in people and languages, its hyper-mobility and constant flux. Less typical places – peri-urban and rural areas, peripheral areas of countries, peripheral zones of the world, peripheral institutional zones where minorities are relegated – have been less qu…
Voices in the classroom
This study, part of a larger linguistic ethnographic enquiry carried out in two primary school classrooms in Flanders and the Netherlands, sheds light on the perils faced by the ethnographer caught between pupils’ inventiveness and his own ethnographic naivety when dealing with these pupils’ ethnolinguistic identity construction. The study first focuses on a classroom interaction set up by the teacher, who - because of the presence of the classro…
Normativity and change
The present article deals with what we feel to be an unexplored path in present day sociolinguistics and a viable way toward making sociolinguistics more cognitive and cognitive linguistics more social. Naturally, sociolinguistics has a strong interest in issues of variation and change, variation being typically conditioned by social factors, such as age, gender, ethnicity as well as the discursive regimes of language use present in a community o…
Modernist language ideologies, indexicalities and identities
Article Modernist language ideologies, indexicalities and identities: Looking at the multilingual classroom through a post-Fishmanian lens was published on May 16, 2011 in the journal Applied Linguistics Review (volume 2, issue 2011)
What Lies Beneath?” Immigrant Minority Pupils' Identity Construction in a Multicultural Flemish Primary Classroom
This study investigates how immigrant minority pupils in a primary Flemish 5th Form construct their self-ascribed identities in terms of their cultural and linguistic affiliations. Two generalizable findings emerging from these pupils' discourse seem to shed light on synchronic variation and diachronic change in their strategies of identity construction through the management of their cultural and linguistic belongings. The change is brought by t…
Multilingual Migrants and Monolingual Teachers
As a result of politically, economically and socially motivated migration, which started in the seventies, Belgium has undergone a considerable demo-linguistic change. Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, is no exception to this (see, Ramaut 1998; Verlot and Delrue 2004). While for those immigrants who belong to Western European groups there has been a form of integration within the mainstream culture, a strong case for social (and lingu…
Language and Political Economy
Beyond languages, beyond modalities
This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of language use, moving from bilingualism to multilingualism and (trans)languaging, have resulted in the revitalisation of the concept of language repertoires. We discuss key assumptions and analytical developments that have shaped the sociolinguistic study of signed and spoken…
Mediating cultural diversity in a globalized public space
Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Globalization, and Superdiversity
The chapter tackles key concepts in the study of language and society.It shows how the study of language has shifted its terminology and its conceptual understanding of language use by moving from (individual and societal) bilingualism to multilingualism and languaging, ending with the revitalization of a much abandoned concept, that of language repertoires.Rather than a comprehensive review, the chapter discusses selected key assumptions, topics…
Mediatization and the Language of Journalism
At the intersection of applied linguistics and journalism studies lies media linguistics.This emerging subdisciplinary label is an umbrella term for the study of mass mediated language use, which, for the purposes of this chapter, is restricted to news media: public or private institutions of mass communication that produce and spread public information commoditized as news.Two issues stand out in the literature on media linguistics (and beyond).…
Normativity and change
The present article deals with what we feel to be an unexplored path in present day sociolinguistics and a viable way toward making sociolinguistics more cognitive and cognitive linguistics more social. Naturally, sociolinguistics has a strong interest in issues of variation and change, variation being typically conditioned by social factors, such as age, gender, ethnicity as well as the discursive regimes of language use present in a community o…
New speakers of new and old languages
This paper explores the intersection of new speakers in conditions of globalisation led mobility and it investigates the implications the phenomena may have for language policy making. It first describes two historical phases in language policy development that are closely related to a sociolinguistics of stability. In this, it criticises how present-day language policy is attached to specific time and space constraints whose focus is a by now ou…
Educational environments as contested multicultural discursive spaces
Classrooms and schools, whether falling in or outside regular education, endorse the task of presenting those who attend them with legitimate knowledge in a given historical context (Young 2009). T
Constructing the Other
Immigrant minority pupils' identities take a secondary position in the curriculum of the Dutch (primary) educational sector where the jargon of minorities (Extra & Gorter, 2001: 5) addresses pupils as allochtone leerlingen (immigrant minority pupils) and where the teaching of their community languages has stopped following governmental regulations (Bezemer & Kroon, forthcoming). Consequently, Dutch (primary) school teachers are faced with the cha…
Multilingual Migrants and Monolingual Teachers
As a result of politically, economically and socially motivated migration, which started in the seventies, Belgium has undergone a considerable demo-linguistic change. Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, is no exception to this (see, Ramaut 1998; Verlot and Delrue 2004). While for those immigrants who belong to Western European groups there has been a form of integration within the mainstream culture, a strong case for social (and lingu…
Constructing the Other
Immigrant minority pupils' identities take a secondary position in the curriculum of the Dutch (primary) educational sector where the jargon of minorities (Extra & Gorter, 2001: 5) addresses pupils as allochtone leerlingen (immigrant minority pupils) and where the teaching of their community languages has stopped following governmental regulations (Bezemer & Kroon, forthcoming). Consequently, Dutch (primary) school teachers are faced with the cha…
What Lies Beneath?” Immigrant Minority Pupils' Identity Construction in a Multicultural Flemish Primary Classroom
This study investigates how immigrant minority pupils in a primary Flemish 5th Form construct their self-ascribed identities in terms of their cultural and linguistic affiliations. Two generalizable findings emerging from these pupils' discourse seem to shed light on synchronic variation and diachronic change in their strategies of identity construction through the management of their cultural and linguistic belongings. The change is brought by t…
Modernist language ideologies, indexicalities and identities
Article Modernist language ideologies, indexicalities and identities: Looking at the multilingual classroom through a post-Fishmanian lens was published on May 16, 2011 in the journal Applied Linguistics Review (volume 2, issue 2011)
Normativity and change
The present article deals with what we feel to be an unexplored path in present day sociolinguistics and a viable way toward making sociolinguistics more cognitive and cognitive linguistics more social. Naturally, sociolinguistics has a strong interest in issues of variation and change, variation being typically conditioned by social factors, such as age, gender, ethnicity as well as the discursive regimes of language use present in a community o…
Globalization in the margins
Work on globalization has been concentrated on typical sites where features and phenomena are abundantly available: the huge contemporary metropolis with its explosive and conspicuous diversity in people and languages, its hyper-mobility and constant flux. Less typical places – peri-urban and rural areas, peripheral areas of countries, peripheral zones of the world, peripheral institutional zones where minorities are relegated – have been less qu…
Voices in the classroom
This study, part of a larger linguistic ethnographic enquiry carried out in two primary school classrooms in Flanders and the Netherlands, sheds light on the perils faced by the ethnographer caught between pupils’ inventiveness and his own ethnographic naivety when dealing with these pupils’ ethnolinguistic identity construction. The study first focuses on a classroom interaction set up by the teacher, who - because of the presence of the classro…
Language and Superdiversity
This paper explores the scope for research on language and super-diversity.12 Following a protracted process of paradigm shift, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology are well placed to engage with the contemporary social changes associated with super-diversity. After a brief introductory discussion of what super-diversity entails, the paper outlines key theoretical and methodological developments in language study: named languages have now…
Mediating cultural diversity in a globalized public space
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society
It challenges the basic tenets of sociolinguistics as we know it. Each chapter provides the strength and limitations of positivist modernist perspective advocatiing for a step toward post-structuralist critical sociolinguistics
Language and Political Economy
Mediatization and the Language of Journalism
At the intersection of applied linguistics and journalism studies lies media linguistics.This emerging subdisciplinary label is an umbrella term for the study of mass mediated language use, which, for the purposes of this chapter, is restricted to news media: public or private institutions of mass communication that produce and spread public information commoditized as news.Two issues stand out in the literature on media linguistics (and beyond).…
Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Globalization, and Superdiversity
The chapter tackles key concepts in the study of language and society.It shows how the study of language has shifted its terminology and its conceptual understanding of language use by moving from (individual and societal) bilingualism to multilingualism and languaging, ending with the revitalization of a much abandoned concept, that of language repertoires.Rather than a comprehensive review, the chapter discusses selected key assumptions, topics…
Complexity, mobility, migration
This chapter argues that a sociolinguistics of migration addressing superdiversity needs to address the real complexity of communicative situations as its object. The chapter discusses that it should strive to document such complex situations in some detail. It shows how this sociolinguistics may produce new methodological approaches in which change, not synchronic state of events, becomes the central object of inquiry. The chapter zooms in on an…
Beyond languages, beyond modalities
This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of language use, moving from bilingualism to multilingualism and (trans)languaging, have resulted in the revitalisation of the concept of language repertoires. We discuss key assumptions and analytical developments that have shaped the sociolinguistic study of signed and spoken…
“It’s All About Naming Things Right”
The chapter deals with the process of identity (mis)recognition that has led to the rejection of an asylum seeking application. Spotti addresses discrepancies between the story narrated by the asylum seeking applicant and the type of factual knowledge sought by the officials judging the truthfulness of his identity claim, as well as between official naming practices and the locally based naming of things used by the applicant. The case documented…
New speakers of new and old languages
This paper explores the intersection of new speakers in conditions of globalisation led mobility and it investigates the implications the phenomena may have for language policy making. It first describes two historical phases in language policy development that are closely related to a sociolinguistics of stability. In this, it criticises how present-day language policy is attached to specific time and space constraints whose focus is a by now ou…
Globalization on the Margins
Reflecting on almost three decades of postsocialist transformations, the second edition of Globalization on the Margins explores continuities and changes in Central Asian education development since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, with a particular focus on the developments that took place since the production of the first edition in 2011. Rather than viewing these transformations in isolation, the authors place their analyses within…
Enregisterment into Dutchness
This contribution focuses on the discursive construction of refugees within the process of civic integration in the Netherlands. The study – that uses interpretive ethnographic means of data collection and analysis – takes as its case in point the Common Room, a communal building belonging to a regionally supported foundation meant to facilitate – through the support of volunteers – the integration of refugees in the South of the Netherlands. Fol…
Educational environments as contested multicultural discursive spaces
Classrooms and schools, whether falling in or outside regular education, endorse the task of presenting those who attend them with legitimate knowledge in a given historical context (Young 2009). T
Interactional regimes of sociolinguistic behaviour
Drawing on the notion of sociolinguistic scaling, the present contribution argues for an understanding of an asylum-seeking centre as a unit of inquiry in which sociolinguistic repertoires are played out during intercultural communicative encounters. The contribution shows how the centre’s spaces encapsulate time- and space-bound interactional regimes and language hierarchies. Taken as such, the different rooms that make up the centre, e. g. the …
Scaling practices in language encounters
Exploring (Im)mobilities
The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
Sociolinguistics and Superdiversity
This chapter first takes stock of the prolific relationship of superdiversity with sociolinguistics (Blommaert and Rampton 2011; Creese and Blackledge 2018) and the advancements superdiversity has helped the field make in reshaping its conceptual wealth and methodological armour. From there, the chapter reflects on the notion of “combinatorial spaces” (Arnaut, Karrebaek, Spotti and Blommaert 2017), using it as a lens that—once appraised from an e…
Superdiversity and Multilingual Education
This entry offers the reader an overview of the changes that have taken place in multilingual education and its policing during an era characterized by superdiversity. In so doing, it stresses the conceptual wealth that superdiversity holds for language and education studies in general and for multilingual education in particular. Last, it shows how superdiversity has managed to have multilingual education move away from a group‐based understandi…
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