Linguistic landscapes in South-East Asia : the politics of language and public signage
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Linguistic landscapes in South-East Asia : the politics of language and public signage
(Routledge studies in sociolinguistics)
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries.
Spanning Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, the chapters explore how different individuals and collectivities use semiotic resources in different spaces - schools, airports, streets and shops as well as online platforms - to reinforce or contest existing social structures, bearing strong implications for language maintenance and cultural revitalization, construction of ethnolinguistic and national identities, and socioeconomic mobility. Part I looks into how globalization and its accompanying forces and influences - such as the importance of English in socioeconomic mobility - come into contact with local Asian cultures and languages. Part II examines minority languages, demographically and socio-politically established in the countries, shedding light on the role of LL that plays in both their minorization and revitalization processes. Part III investigates how LL is utilized as a site for constructing identities to pursue socioeconomic, political and cultural goals. It is within this perspective that the presence and salience of English in the LL of the countries along with the use of the Asian languages is analyzed and understood, shedding light on how Asian heritage languages and cultures are preserved and/or certain identities in the times of political unrest or economic development are expressed.
This fascinating insight into linguistic landscapes in Asia will be of interest to researchers, students and policy makers in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics anywhere in the world.
Table of Contents
Introduction Section One: Globalization and Population Mobility 1. Language Ideology in the Linguistic Landscape of Hanoi 2. Multilingual Cityscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space in Taiwan: A Study of Two Urban Settings Section Two: Minority Languages 3. Constructing a visual multilingual reality in Singapore's schools 4. Accommodating Chinese Community Languages in Penang: Evidence from the Linguistic Landscape and Local Voices 5. Landscape and the struggle for survival: The Case of Cavite Chabacano Section Three: Constructing, Negotiating and Contesting identities 6. Understanding the identities of Hong Kong people through transgressive signs 7. Semiotic practices, power and identity: Linguistic landscape at the airport in Shanghai 8. "Keep Original": Translanguaging and Identity Construction Among East Javanese Football Supporters 9. Conclusion
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