

The series welcomes work dealing with such topics as heterogeneity, mixing, creolization, bricolage, cross-over phenomena, and polylingual and polycultural practices. So the focus is both on the linguistic encounters, inequalities and struggles that characterize postmodern societies and on the development, within sociocultural linguistics, of theoretical instruments to explain them.


4 Preserving the Nation: The Threat Beyond our BordersĪppendix: KBI Statements Situated within the History of Indonesian NationalizationĮNCOUNTERS Series Editors: Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Ben Rampton, Kings College London, UK, Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, USA, Sirpa Leppänen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and James Collins, University at Albany/SUNY, USA The Encounters series sets out to explore diversity in language from a theoretical and an applied perspective.
