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Jan Blommaert (4 November 1961 – 7 January 2021) was a Belgian sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist, Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He also held appointments at Ghent University (Belgium) and University of the Western Cape (South Africa).
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Apr 30, 2021 · On 7 January 2021, Jan Blommaert died aged 59, after a ten-month battle with cancer. He was an extraordinary person and a brilliant academic, and there have been a great many very moving personal accounts of how much Jan meant to the people he interacted with.
- Ben Rampton
- 2021
Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization. Description. Intercultural Communication, Language and globalization, globalization studies, ethnographic research...
Jan 8, 2021 · Jan Blommaert was born in Dendermonde, Belgium in 1961 and grew up in Brussels. He got his doctorate in African Philology and History at Ghent University in 1989 where he also was a Professor of African Linguistics and Sociolinguistics from 1997 to 2005.
In a series of later publications, Jan Blommaert, who has died at the age of 59, explicitly discussed the ways in which his thinking was the product of a lifetime of engaging with other scholars.
- Philip Seargeant
- 2021
King’s College London, UK. On 7 January 2021, Jan Blommaert died aged 59, after a ten-month battle with cancer. He was an extraordinary person and a brilliant academic, and there have been a great many very moving personal accounts of how much Jan meant to the people he interacted with.
To develop his sociolinguistics of globalization, Blommaert critically reviews three books on the topic from the field of language study (14-20), including Language and globalization (Fairclough 2006), which has received criticism (e.
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