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In:The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the margins
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Vincent A. de Rooij
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 45] 2018
► pp. 1–14

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Chapter 1
Introduction

Belonging through linguistic place-making in center-periphery constellations

 | Meertens Instituut (KNAW) | Maastricht University
 | University of Amsterdam
Published online: 7 March 2018
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Article outline
  • Linguistic marginalization
  • Perceptions of peripheries
  • Place-belongingness and politics of belonging
  • Problematizing belonging
  • Belonging through linguistic place-making
  • The current volume
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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