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Linguistic Landscape - Volume 9, Issue 4, 2023
Volume 9, Issue 4, 2023
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Assessing the place of minoritized languages in postcolonial contexts using the Linguistic Landscape
Author(s): Bettina Miggepp.: 329–356 (28)More LessAbstractLinguistic Landscape research has demonstrated that detailed analysis of written signage provides, often simultaneously, important insights into various aspects of the sociolinguistic dynamics of a context, particularly those involving minoritized languages. Comparatively little of that research has, however, focused on postcolonial contexts in which people make little use of literacy and in which locally widely used minoritized languages co-exist with an officially dominant ex-colonial language. This paper explores written signage involving minoritized languages in the town of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (French Guiana) and how it is shaped by local practices and social change. The paper argues that knowledge of the ethnographic context such as local practices of place belongingness, the place of writing, and processes of social change is indispensable when analyzing the Linguistic Landscape. When viewed from a holistic perspective, the Linguistic Landscape provides insights into local identities and the processes promoting them.
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The temporality of commodified landscapes at events & local constructions of identity in Salzburg
Author(s): Konstantin Niehauspp.: 357–386 (30)More LessAbstractThis paper presents a study of how temporary, fixed-term local semiotic landscapes in Salzburg, Austria, contribute to a construction of local identity. For this purpose, two main events in the city’s calendar were investigated, the Ruperti fair in the autumn and the Christmas market in the winter. I explore how and the extent to which semiotic resources such as linguistic features index local pride and become commodified, i.e., utilized for economic gain. The indexicality can be temporary or even volatile with some signs and creates an event-specific or non-event specific semiotic ‘register’ (enregisterment). The analysis follows two major commodifying practices, historicizing (in particular, the use of blackletter) and localizing (use of non-standard Austro-Bavarian dialect), and employs a multimodal approach. A qualitative analysis reveals how signs add to the temporary local authentication and discusses how LL research can benefit from capturing event spaces and the temporality of signs.
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Contextual graffiti and collective action frames at the Chilean social outbreak in 2019
Author(s): Melisa Miranda Correapp.: 387–412 (26)More LessAbstractProtest graffiti as visual activism provides a democratic space for demonstrators to articulate their narratives. Nevertheless, the lack of leadership in the Chilean social outburst in 2019 becomes a challenge in outlining its impact. Thus, this article provides an empirical case of political graffiti and explains how graffiti had a constitutive role in the social movement and the immediate country’s political course after that. This paper proposes a transdisciplinary approach by combining the analysis of graffiti as contextual texts (Pennycook, 2007) with ‘collective action frames’ in studying political graffiti collected in a six-kilometre walk in Santiago, Chile. As a result, graffiti frameworks of injustice denounce the state and police violence; frameworks of agency tend to organise protesters’ ideas for change, such as a new constitution and the end of the current pension systems; and a strong sense of feminism conforms part of identity frames.
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The prominence of English in the Linguistic Landscape of Jamshedpur
Author(s): Sneha Mishrapp.: 413–437 (25)More LessAbstractThe study explores the public and private signs in the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of Jamshedpur city in India. It employs a mixed methods approach as it integrates quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis to reveal the city’s careful display of monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual signs representing distinct identities. The study investigates the distribution of signs across five sample locations while focusing on the signs’ content, their functions (symbolic vs informational), and explores the sign producers’ motivation for their language choice on signs.
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Review of Mirvahedi (2022): Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia: The Politics of Language and Public Signage
Author(s): Chaojun Mapp.: 438–441 (4)More LessThis article reviews Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia: The Politics of Language and Public Signage
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Review of Lee (2022): Choreographies of Multilingualism: Writing and language ideology in Singapore
Author(s): James Chonglong Gupp.: 442–444 (3)More LessThis article reviews Choreographies of Multilingualism: Writing and language ideology in Singapore
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