Language, Migration, and Sociological Imagination

Chapter 1 is an introduction to the book. It starts with a brief discussion of how the authors came to write the book, using this example to highlight the issues of mobility. This discussion leads to an explanation of how mobility, migration, and imagination have been theorized in sociolinguistics thus far, and an explanation of what chronotopes have to offer to such theorizations. This is followed by a methods section, which outlines the authors’ approach to ethnography and offers background information on the two groups under study: Uzbeks and Iranian Azerbaijanis. This first chapter ends with an outline of the remaining chapters in the book.