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Commentary: Mobility, contexts, and the chronotope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2017

Jan Blommaert
Jan Blommaert*
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Tilburg University
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Address for correspondence: Jan Blommaert Department of Culture Studies, University of Tilburg, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlandsj.blommaert@tilburguniversity.edu
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Mobility raises specific issues with regard to what we understand by ‘context’, and in this commentary I suggest that Bakhtin's concept of chronotope could be a useful instrument enabling a precise and detailed, mobile, unit of ‘context’. This unit connects specific time-space arrangements with ideological and moral orders, projecting possible and preferred identities. The articles in this issue offer rich material in this direction.

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Language in Society , Volume 46 , Special Issue 1: Metapragmatics of Mobility , February 2017 , pp. 95 - 99
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