Jan Blommaert †
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jan Blommaert † is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2210-7010
Discourse and Human Rights Violations
Edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert †
First published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006), this collection of papers focuses, from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, on aspects of language and communication in official processes of dealing with traumatic pasts. It is a text that belongs… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 5] 2007. x, 142 pp.
Critical Linguistic Perspectives on Coping with Traumatic Pasts: Case studies
Edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert †
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006) 162 pp.
Ethnography, discourse, and hegemony
Edited by Jan Blommaert †, James Collins, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck and Jef Verschueren
Handbook of Pragmatics: 2002 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 8] 2003. viii, 402 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 2001 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 7] 2003. vi, 299 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use, using the authoritative Handbook of Pragmatics as a basis (edited by the IPrA Research Center since 1995).It provides easy access… read more[Online Resources Collection, HoP] 2003.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 2000 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 6] 2002. iv, 298 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 5] 2001. vi, 282 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1998 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 4] 2000. vi, 342 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 3] 1999. 297 pp.
Political Linguistics
Edited by Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.After a… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 11] 1997. vi, 312 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 2] 1997. vi, 268 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 1995 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 1] 1996. 336 pp. + Binder
Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert †
The Handbook of Pragmatics, published under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), provides easy access, for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with converging interests in the use and functioning of language, to the field of linguistic pragmatics, broadly… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, M] 1995. xiv, 658 pp.
The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 3
Edited by Jan Blommaert † and Jef Verschueren
This volume contains a selection of papers from a special session of the International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, August 1987) and from the Symposium on Intercultural Communication (Ghent, December 1987).Studying the communicative styles of cultures and social groups, both at the descriptive… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:3] 1991. viii, 249 pp.
Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17–22, 1987: 3 Volumes (set)
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan Blommaert †
These three volumes provide a representative picture of the scholarly substance of the highly successful pragmatics conference held in Antwerp. Volume I collects those papers which focus on fundamental questions such as: the relationship of pragmatics to grammar and semantics, intentionality,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:S] 1991. 900 pp.
2021 Ergoic framing in New Right online groups: Q, the MAGA kid, and the Deep State theory Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:1, pp. 4–36 | Article
Conspiracy theories are often disqualified as inadequate and deliberate forms of misinformation. In this analysis, we engage with a specific case, the conspiracy theory developed on an online New Right forum called Q about the so-called “MAGA Kid incident” with focus on its circulation and… read more
2020 Understanding memes on Chinese social media: Biaoqing Chinese Language and Discourse 11:2, pp. 226–260 | Article
Memes as online graphic semiotic resources have developed into a globalized genre and a cultural form. The vernacularization of this global cultural form on Chinese social media is Biaoqing (literally, ‘facial expression’). Biaoqing is a phenomenon and a genre engendered by the development of… read more
2015 Pierre Bourdieu – Perspectives on language in society Handbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Article
2015 Meaning as a nonlinear effect: The birth of cool Theory in Applied Linguistics Research: Critical approaches to production, performance and participation, Lillis, Theresa (ed.), pp. 7–27 | Article
Saussurean and Chomskyan “conduit” views of meaning in communication, dominant in much of expert and lay linguistic semantics, presuppose a simple, closed and linear system in which outcomes can be predicted and explained in terms of finite sets of rules. Summarizing critical traditions of… read more
2014 1998. Debating Diversity. Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance. London: Routledge, selected 32-38 The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis, Angermuller, Johannes, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 370–377 | Article
2013 Enough is enough: The heuristics of authenticity in superdiversity Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 143–160 | Article
This paper contributes to an empirical theory of identity in a context of superdiversity by offering a heuristic for engaging with the complex and dynamic identity processes in superdiverse societies today, both online and offline. We define identity practices as discursive orientations towards… read more
2013 Chinese and globalization Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 275–296 | Article
Globalization poses challenges to sociolinguistics. The main challenge is to come to terms with the phenomenology of sociolinguistic globalization. This phenomenology touches four domains: proper globalization effects on language, the effect of globalization on migration patterns and immigrant… read more
2012 Supervernaculars and their dialects Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 1:1, pp. 1–14 | Article
This paper introduces the term ‘supervernacular’ as a descriptor for new forms of semiotic codes emerging in the context of technology-driven globalization processes. Supervernaculars are widespread codes used in communities that do not correspond to ‘traditional’ sociolinguistic speech… read more
2009 Delicacies: Some reflections Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts, Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Vally Lytra (eds.), pp. 489–491 | Article
2007 Applied ethnopoetics Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 215–224 | Article
Ethnopoetics is a form of narrative analysis designed, initially, for the analysis of folk stories and based on an ethnographic performance-based understanding of narrative emphasizing that meaning is an effect of performance. It offers opportunities for analyzing ‘voice’. The ways in which… read more
2007 Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings: On the hearability of hidden transcripts Discourse and Human Rights Violations, Anthonissen, Christine and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 33–63 | Article
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission victim hearings were a highly unusual discourse event in which previously silenced and powerless people were offered a prestigious public forum and speech format to tell about their experiences of human rights violations. However, despite the equal… read more
2006 How legitimate is my voice? A rejoinder Heterolingualism in/and Translation, Meylaerts, Reine (ed.), pp. 163–176 | Article
2006 Applied ethnopoetics Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 181–190 | Article
Ethnopoetics is a form of narrative analysis designed, initially, for the analysis of folk stories and based on an ethnographic performance-based understanding of narrative emphasizing that meaning is an effect of performance. It offers opportunities for analyzing ‘voice’. The ways in which… read more
2006 Ethnopoetics as functional reconstruction: Dell Hymes’ narrative view of the world Functions of Language 13:2, pp. 255–275 | Article
2006 Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings: On the hearability of hidden transcripts Critical Linguistic Perspectives on Coping with Traumatic Pasts: Case studies, Anthonissen, Christine and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 37–70 | Article
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission victim hearings were a highly unusual discourse event in which previously silenced and powerless people were offered a prestigious public forum and speech format to tell about their experiences of human rights violations. However, despite the… read more
2003 Orthopraxy, writing and identity: Shaping lives through borrowed genres in Congo Ethnography, discourse, and hegemony, Blommaert, Jan †, James Collins, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 33–48 | Article
This paper explores grassroots historiographical writing from Congo in the context of globalization. The authors are both sub-elite writers, producing text for First-World readers, and they spend enormous efforts at producing a generically regimented text, based on borrowed models of text and… read more
2003 Orthopraxy, writing and identity: Shaping lives through borrowed genres in Congo Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value, Martin, J.R. and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 177–194 | Article
2003 Space, experience and authority: Exploring attitudes towards refugee centers in Belgium Studying Identity: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges, pp. 311–331 | Miscellaneous
This paper reports on ongoing research on attitudes towards the establishing of refugee centers in Belgium. Attitudes are here defined ethnographically as discursive and active constructs and processes often captured under statified terms such as “attitude” or “opinion”. Based on an analysis of… read more
2003 Introduction Ethnography, discourse, and hegemony, Blommaert, Jan †, James Collins, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2002 Pretextuality and pretextual gaps: On de/refining linguistic inequality Pragmatics 12:1, pp. 11–30 | Article
Drawing on the rich tradition of investigations into linguistic inequality, this paper seeks to define the phenomenon of pretextual gaps, i.e. socially anchored and often invisible differences between what is expected in communication and what people can bring and deploy in communication.… read more
1997 Introduction: Language and politics, language politics and political linguistics Political Linguistics, Blommaert, Jan † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
1997 Whose background? comments on a discourse-analytic reconstruction of the Warsaw uprising Pragmatics 7:1, pp. 69–81 | Article
1997 The slow shift in orthodoxy: (Re)formulations of ‘integration’ in Belgium Conflict and violence in pragmatic research, Briggs, Charles L. (ed.), pp. 499–518 | Article
1996 Language Planning as a Discourse on Language and Society: The Linguistic Ideology of a Scholarly Tradition Language Problems and Language Planning 20:3, pp. 199–222 | Article
SAMENVATTING Taaiplanning als bezinning over taal en maatschappij: de taalkundige ideologie van een geleerde traditie Taalplanning is een traditie die vooral in de jaren 1960 en 1970 bijzonder productief was en in zich een groot optimisme ontwikkelde. De traditie viel wat stil in de jaren 1980,… read more
1992 The role of language in European nationalist ideologies Language ideologies, Schieffelin, Bambi B., Paul V. Kroskrity and Kathryn A. Woolard (eds.), pp. 355–375 | Article
1991 How much culture is there in intercultural communication? The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Blommaert, Jan † and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 13–32 | Article
1991 Intercultural and international communication: Introduction The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Blommaert, Jan † and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article