Linguistic Landscape in the City

Linguistic Landscape in the City
Author: Elana Shohamy
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847694810

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications on linguistic landscape, but the editors aim to investigate the nature of a field of study which is characterised by its interest in ‘ordered disorder’. The editors aspire to delve into linguistic landscape beyond its appearance as a jungle of jumbled and irregular items by focusing on the variations in linguistic landscape configurations and recognising that it is but one more field of the shaping of social reality under diverse, uncoordinated and possibly incongruent structuration principles.

Linguistic Landscapes

Linguistic Landscapes
Author: Peter Backhaus
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853599468

Linguistic Landscapes is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs. It provides an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo. Linguistic Landscapes demonstrates that the study of language on signs provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism.

The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown

The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown
Author: Jackie Jia Lou
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783095644

This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors and analysis of community meetings and public policies, it provides an in-depth study of the production and consumption of linguistic landscape as a cultural text. Following a geosemiotic analysis of shop signs, it traces the multiple historical trajectories of discourse which shaped the bilingual landscape of the neighbourhood. Turning to the spatial contexts, it then compares and contrasts the situated meaning of the linguistic landscape for residents, community organisers and urban planners.

Linguistic Landscape

Linguistic Landscape
Author: Durk Gorter
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853599166

The book contains a collection of studies of the linguistic landscape - the use of written language on signs in the public sphere - in 5 different societies: Israel, Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands (Friesland) and Spain (Basque Country). All contributions focus on multilingualism in the social context of the major cities.

Expanding the Linguistic Landscape

Expanding the Linguistic Landscape
Author: Martin Pütz
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788922174

This book provides a forum for theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to research on language(s), multimodality and public space, which will advance new ways of understanding the sociocultural, ideological and historical role of communication practices and experienced lives in a globalised world. Linguistic Landscape is viewed as a metaphor and expanded to include a wide variety of discursive modalities: imagery, non-verbal communication, silence, tactile and aural communication, graffiti, smell, etc. The chapters in this book cover a range of geographical locations, and capture the history, motives, uses, causes, ideologies, communication practices and conflicts of diverse forms of languages as they may be observed in public spaces of the physical environment. The book is anchored in a variety of theories, methodologies and frameworks, from economics, politics and sociology to linguistics and applied linguistics, literacy and education, cultural geography and human rights.

Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape

Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape
Author: David Malinowski
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030557618

This book builds upon the growing field of Linguistic Landscape in order to demonstrate the power of a spatialized approach to language, culture, and literacy education as it opens classrooms and cultivates new competencies. The chapters develop major themes, including re-imagining language curricula, language classrooms, and schoolscapes in dialogue with the heteroglossic discourses of the local; developing L2 learners’ symbolic, translingual competencies through engagement with situated, multimodal texts; fostering critical social awareness through language study in the linguistic landscape; expanding opportunities for situated L2 reading and writing; and cultivating language students’ capacities for engaged scholarship and research in out-of-class contexts. By exploring the pedagogical possibilities of place-based approaches to literacy development, this volume contributes to the reimagining of language education through the linguistic landscape.

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape
Author: D. Gorter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230360238

Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.

Linguistic Landscape

Linguistic Landscape
Author: Elana Shohamy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2008-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135859132

This title explores linguistic landscape, which refers to the signs, directions, and other documentation that appear in the public space, and includes the interpretation of this 'visible language' in social, political, and economic contexts.

The Linguistic Landscape of the Mediterranean

The Linguistic Landscape of the Mediterranean
Author: Stefania Tufi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1137314567

This book explores the Linguistic Landscapes of ten French and Italian Mediterranean coastal cities. The authors address the national languages, the regional languages and dialects, migrant languages, and the English language, as they collectively mark the public space.

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities
Author: Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004385134

This work studies aspects of the symbolic construction of public spaces by means of linguistic resources (i.e. linguistic landscapes or LLs) in a number of world-cities. The sociology of language leads us to this field and to study the intermingling impacts of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism – each one conveying its own distinct linguistic markers: international codes, national languages and ethnic vernaculars. Eliezer and Miriam Ben-Rafael study the configurations of these influences, which they conceptualize as multiple globalization, in the LLs of downtowns, residential quarters, and marginal neighborhoods of a number of world-cities. They ask how far worldwide codes of communication gain preeminence, national languages are marginalized and ethnic vernaculars impactful. They conclude by suggesting a paradigm of multiple globalizations.