Space-time (dis)continuities in the linguistic landscape : studies in the symbolic (re-)appropriation of public space / edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Małgorzata Fabiszak and Melody Ann Ross.
"This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century. The volume seeks...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
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2024.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Summary: | "This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century. The volume seeks to expand the current borders of linguistic landscape research by situating the analysis of signs in the LL within their time-space organization, which has been understudied in existing scholarship. The book, featuring chapters from established and emerging scholars, argues that a focus on the historicity of the city text can reveal unique insights into the role of semiotic processes as precursors and support mechanisms for political and social changes. The collection is structured around different temporal clusters and geographic contexts across the globe where shorter and longer waves of politically-driven re-semioticization can be most sharply observed - post-colonial communities; post-communist societies; and recent and current socio-political upheavals. Taken together, the volume proposes a kaleidoscope view of the complex temporalities that underpin multimodal discourses in contested public spaces, offering new directions for linguistic landscape research. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, semiotics, visual anthropology, and political science"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003311621 1003311628 9781040012215 1040012213 9781040012253 1040012256 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed April 1, 2024). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Isabelle Buchstaller is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Małgorzata Fabiszak is a professor at the Faculty of English and Head of the Department of Cognitive Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Melody Ann Ross is a sociolinguist and researcher in the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. |