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Online First articles are the published Version of Record, made available as soon as they are finalized and formatted. They are in general accessible to current subscribers, until they have been included in an issue, which is accessible to subscribers to the relevant volume
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Review of Gorter & Cenoz (2023): A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies
Author(s): David MalinowskiAvailable online: 06 February 2025More Less
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Voices in the Linguistic Landscape : Anthropomorphization of artifacts and the pronominal construction of speakerhood
Author(s): Theresa Heyd and Jana PithanAvailable online: 23 January 2025More LessAbstractThis paper contributes to the emerging analytical framework of anthropomorphized artifacts as part of Linguistic Landscapes. It describes and analyzes cases where signage, objects, or related inanimate objects are inscribed with language that includes first-person pronoun usage and thus constructs the notion of speakerhood. We analyze a corpus of over 80 such items and provide qualitative analysis that includes structural aspects such as emerging syntactic regularities as well as the prevalence of graphematic and stylistic informality markers. We identify discursive and pragmatic functions that the construction of voice has in the analyzed material. We connect the phenomenon and our findings to theories of anthropomorphization in general and to current developments in posthumanist linguistics and the uncertain epistemic status of speakerhood more specifically.
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Review of Franklin (2019): The Russian Graphosphere, 1450–1850
Author(s): Conor DalyAvailable online: 10 January 2025More Less
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Review of Wee & Goh (2020): Language, Space and Cultural Play: Theorising Affect in the Semiotic Landscape
Author(s): Jade EngelAvailable online: 09 January 2025More Less
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Embodied vulnerability : Semiotic landscapes of suicide
Author(s): Máiréad MoriartyAvailable online: 06 January 2025More LessAbstractA recent move in semiotic landscape studies is to examine how those placed on the margins of society counteract such regulation by using the semiotic landscape as a platform to enact regimes of voice and agency where scholarly attention has begun to study the spatial representations of vulnerability and how individuals othered by these processes fight back (see for example Milani & Levron, 2019; Moriarty, 2019). Drawing on Butler’s (2004) work on corporeal vulnerability, the aim of this paper is to put forward embodied vulnerability as a useful lens for examining semiotic landscapes of vulnerability. The aim of this paper is to put forward skinscape as a resource for embodied vulnerability through the prism of youth suffering from suicidal behaviour in the Republic of Ireland. In drawing on a skinscape images and tattoo narratives, this paper will show how those engaging in suicidal behaviours draw on tattoos as a form of embodiment of their vulnerability that leads to healing and comfort.
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Broken : Towards a vulnerability approach to SL research
Author(s): Máiréad Moriarty and Maida KosaticaAvailable online: 06 January 2025More Less
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On the skids : Mediating anguish, visibilising abusive places
Author(s): Maida Kosatica and Melody Ann RossAvailable online: 17 December 2024More LessAbstractAs a way of identifying places which visibilise vulnerable groups, this paper analyses stories of people living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row from their visual portraits posted on photographer Mark Laita’s YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly. Recognising the important role of oral narratives in the production of semiotic landscapes, we are concerned with the ways people talk about space and (re)construct their vulnerabilities in relation to Skid Row. On their own, autobiographical accounts facilitate a deep understanding of how people structure their lives around particular places, but we also document semiotic landscaping tokens collected from ride-along vlogs and virtual walks. This paper shows that Skid Row is a space of contradictory but simultaneous identities; it is a place of excessive regulatory control and perceived disorder; it is bounded and confined but also easily and dangerously accessible; it is peripheral and overlooked but also appealing to ‘watch’.
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Unsettling vulnerability in the wake of violence
Author(s): Natalia VolvachAvailable online: 16 December 2024More LessAbstractIn this essay, I write about the multifaceted dimensions and reverberations of violence (Navaro et al., 2021b) of Russia’s war against Ukraine, spanning from 2014 to the present day. Drawing on previous studies of semiotic landscapes, which emphasize a relational approach to people and places (Peck et al., 2019), I analyze ethnographic materials in the form of field notes collected during research in Crimea in 2019. This is done to reflect on the character of the violence to which people and landscapes become exposed. Three analytical vignettes describe the remnants of violence, which take on various guises of Russia’s war and highlight the vulnerability of both people and landscapes. At the end of the essay, I propose approaching these processes poetically, and viewing them through the lens of mutual vulnerability — a concept that considers the relationality of vulnerability as a phenomenon, encompassing the vulnerability of both people and landscapes.
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Sharing the vulnerable self : LL constructions of narratives of suffering
Author(s): Stefania TufiAvailable online: 13 December 2024More LessAbstractThe article focuses on Guardia Piemontese/La Gàrdia, an Occitan-speaking town in Calabria (Southern Italy), where the semiotic landscape is constructed through modalities of material historiography revolving around an episode of brutal violence dating back to the sixteenth century. The public documentation of the episode through both verbal signs and other semiotic objects contributes to the everyday construction of vulnerability. This process is underpinned by discourses of resistance articulated in unsanitised language that disrupts passive emotional responses to imagined trauma and facilitates the ethical act of naming wrongs. In the everyday sharing of the local history of suffering, past and present vulnerabilities are intertwined in spatial and embodied narratives that generate new forms of energy directed at building a better future.
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Review of Lee (2022): Locating Translingualism
Author(s): Yuxuan MuAvailable online: 19 July 2024More Less
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Making scents of the landscape
Author(s): Alastair Pennycook and Emi Otsuji
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Translanguaging and linguistic landscapes
Author(s): Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz
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Skinscapes
Author(s): Amiena Peck and Christopher Stroud
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