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Infrastructure studies is a vibrant domain of research in other disciplines yet, in Linguistic and Semiotic Landscape (LL) scholarship, it is only just emerging. This article reviews three strands of LL literature that demonstrate how the field is ripe for engagement: architecture and built environment, studies featuring infrastructure by other terms, and the online-offline nexus. Thereafter this article develops an infrastructure perspective in LL through a case study of NEOM, an ongoing project in Saudi Arabia. Four ways an infrastructural perspective is relevant to LL are analyzed: (i) examining the infrastructure as a LL; (ii) identifying how semiosis generates infrastructural flows; (iii) locating semiotic erasure; and (iv) tracing how the entanglement of global capital circulates semiotic regimes. The article concludes with a consideration of how an infrastructural perspective impacts studies of discourse and space as semiosis and infrastructure emerge as a co-process.

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Keywords: semiosis ; NEOM ; built environment ; Saudi Arabia ; erasure ; architecture ; online-offline nexus ; Gulf

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