Jan Blommaert

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1961 –

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Who is Jan Blommaert?

Jan Blommaert is a Belgian sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist, Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is considered to be one of the world's most prominent sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists, and has contributed substantially to sociolinguistic globalization theory, focusing on historical as well as contemporary patterns of the spread of languages and forms of literacy, and on lasting and new forms of inequality emerging from globalization processes.

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Born
Nov 4, 1961
Dendermonde
Nationality
  • Belgium
Profession
Education
  • PhD, Ghent University
    ( - 1989)
Lived in
  • Belgium

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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