The linguistic landscape of Chinatown : a sociolinguistic ethnography
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The linguistic landscape of Chinatown : a sociolinguistic ethnography
(Encounters, 6)
Multilingual Matters, c2016
- : hbk
Available at 8 libraries
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  Iwate
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  Niigata
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  Kyoto
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  Shimane
  Okayama
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  Tokushima
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
: hbk801.03/37912496872
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-148) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Conceptualizing Linguistic Landscape: Language, Space and Place
Chapter 2 Approaching Chinatown: Background and Methodology
Chapter 3 Chinatown as Heterotopia: Urban Revitalization through Linguistic Landscape
Chapter 4 Situating Linguistic Landscape in Time
Chapter 5 Situating Linguistic Landscape in Space
Chapter 6 Conclusion & Reflection
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
References
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