mobility

A dangerous translation: A case study of the Japanese periphery

Article

Catalina Amengual Ripoll

Ekaterina Gribkova

Hannah Dragon

Eef Janssen

17/11/2020

11 minutes to read

Even though international exchange has increased enormously over the past years, mistranslations are still not uncommon - but what if a mistranslation might actually lead to danger? Like being attacked by a wild bear in the middle of Japan?

How WeChat was used in the 2018 elections in The Hague

Column

Linmin Zheng

21/03/2018

6 minutes to read

This article analyzes the Chinees dimension of the 2018 election in The Hague, The Netherlands. On the basis of concrete data Linmin Zheng argues that even local politics have become translocal.

From mobility to complexity in sociolinguistic theory and method

Academic paper

Jan Blommaert

22/01/2016

29 minutes to read

A theoretical and methodological paradigm sift is underway in sociolinguistics, in which insights in the mobility of sociolinguistic phenomena leads to a complexity perspective with far-reaching effects.