Semiotic landscapes : language, image, space
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Semiotic landscapes : language, image, space
（Advances in sociolinguistics）
Continuum, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Semiotic Landscapes is an exciting addition to the study of linguistic landscapes. It looks at how landscape generates meaning and combines three major areas of scholarly interest each concerned with central dimensions of contemporary life: language and visual discourse, spatial practices, and also the changes bought about by global capitalism and ever increasing mediatization. The editors look at: the textual/discursive construction of place; the use of space as a semiotic resource; the extent to which these processes are shaped by wider economic and political re-orderings of post-industrial or advanced capitalism; changing patterns of human mobility and transnational flows of ideas and images. The collection demonstrates the way written discourse interacts with all other discursive modalities: visual images, nonverbal communication, architecture and the built environment. From the red light districts of Switzerland to the transgressive public art of graffiti, all landscape can be seen to generate meaning. Semiotic Landscapes looks at how and why, and places this meaning generation in an interdisciplinary and thoroughly modern cross-section of global trends.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow
- 1. Changing landscapes: New languages and old policies in the Dublin linguistic landscape, Jeffrey L. Kallen (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
- 2. Discourses in transit, Mark Sebba (Lancaster, UK)
- 3. The entextualisation of language ideologies: Welsh linguistic landscapes, Nikolas Coupland (Cardiff, UK)
- 4. (W)rites of passage: Nonstandard texts and signage in Jamaica, Susan Dray (Lancaster, UK)
- 5. 'A Latino community takes hold': Semiotic landscape and media discourse, Thomas D. Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- 6. Monumental identities: Semiotic legitimacy of Jewish illegal immigration in public space, Elana Shohamy and Shoshi Waksman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
- 7. Contesting public space: Tourism and the transgressive art of graffiti, Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
- 8. Silence is golden: Linguascaping and social exclusion in elite tourism representations, Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski (University of Washington, Cardiff University, UK)
- 9. Sexing multilingualism: The semiotics of the sex industry in Switzerland, Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University, Australia)
- 10. Physical spaces and virtual environments, Rodney H. Jones (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
- 11. Faces of place: Facades and the city as spectacle, laboratory and text, Irina Gendelman and Giorgia Aiello (University of Washington, USA)
- 12. Semiosis takes place or radical uses of quaint theories, Ella Chmielewska (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Index.
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