Jan Blommaert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jan Blommaert

Belgian academic

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1961

Place of Birth: Dendermonde, Flemish Region, Belgium

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jan Blommaert (November 4, 1961) 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.