ABSTRACT
The notion of ‘superdiversity’ has been recently taken up and developed as a sociolinguistically relevant concept primarily through the lens of linguistic ethnography. Indeed, the combination of linguistic ‘tools’ with ethnography appears as a specifically adept way to understand and describe in detail the diversity and changes of contemporary societies. This chapter presents the LE approach to superdiversity research by laying out LE’s basic assumptions, demonstrating how superdiversity pairs with LE, and presenting two examples of LE research in Cyprus and Denmark. The two cases highlight issues of security and conflict which are important, yet often overlooked effects of mobility and societal change.
