A study of linkages between the global and local, demonstrating opportunities and challenges for contemporary sociolinguistics. It examines the impact of globalization on languages in contact. It engages with social theory and social processes while grappling with questions of language analysis raised by globalized language contact.

1. Introduction: Scale, migration, and communicative practice, J. Collins (State University of New York, USA), S. Slembrouck (Ghent University, Belgium) and M. Baynham (University of Leeds, UK); 2. Space, scale and accents: constructing migrant identity in Beijing, J. K. Dong (University of East London, UK) & J. Blommaert (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and University of London, UK); 3. Goffman and globalisation: Frame, footing and scale in migration-connected multilingualism, J. Collins (State University of New York, USA) and S. Slembrouck (Ghent University, Belgium); 4. The spaces of language: the everyday practices of Somali refugee and asylum seeker young people, G. Valentine (University of Leeds, UK), D. Sporton & K. Bang Nielsen (University of Sheffield, UK); 5. Immigration in Catalonia: marking territory through language, J. Pujolar (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); 6. 'Either' and 'Both' - the changing concept of living space among Polish post-communist migrants to the United Kingdom", A. Galasinska & O. Kozlowska (University of Wolverhampton, UK); 7. 'Canada meets France': Recasting identities of Canadianess and Francite through global economic exchanges, G. Budach (University of Southampton, UK).; 8. Changing participation in changing practice: Uses of language and literacy among Portuguese migrant Women in the UK, C. Keating (University of Coimbra, Portugal); 9. A relational understanding of language practice: Interacting Time-Spaces in a single ethnographic site, C. B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada); 10. Transnational flows, networks and 'transcultural capital': Reflections on researching migrant networks through linguistic ethnography, U. H. Meinhof (University of Southampton, UK); 11. 'Just one day like today': the notion of scale and the analysis of space time orientation in narratives of displacement, M. Baynham (University of Leeds, UK); 12. Weighing the scales: Recontextualisation as horizontal scaling, C. Kell (University of Waikato, NZ); 13. From space to spatialization in narrative studies, A. De Fina (Georgetown University, USA); Index.

Since the emergence of sociolinguistics as a new field of enquiry in the late 1960s, research into the relationship between language and society has advanced almost beyond recognition. In particular, the past decade has witnessed the considerable influence of theories drawn from outside of sociolinguistics itself. Thus rather than see language as a mere reflection of society, recent work has been increasingly inspired by ideas drawn from social, cultural, and political theory that have emphasised the constitutive role played by language/discourse in all areas of social life. The Advances in Sociolinguistics series seeks to provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with the role of language in society.