The linguistic landscape of Chinatown : a sociolinguistic ethnography / Jackie Jia Lou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lou, Jackie, author.

Series:

Encounters (Bristol, England) ; 6.

Encounters ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--United States--Washington (D.C.).

Sociolinguistics.

Immigrants--Language.

Social aspects.

Immigrants.

City dwellers.

United States.

Washington (D.C.).

Cities and towns.

Language and culture.

Ethnology.

City dwellers--Language.

Immigrants--Language--Social aspects.

Chinatown (Washington, D.C.)--Social life and customs.

Chinatown (Washington, D.C.).

Physical Description:

ix, 156 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2016]

Contents:

Conceptualizing linguistic landscape: language, space, and place

Research on linguistic landscape: towards an ethnography of representation

Space, place, and language: an interdisciplinary movement

Locating the linguist?s place

situating linguistic landscape in time and space: an integrative framework

Situating linguistic landscape in time: nexus analysis & discourse trajectories

Approaching chinatown: background and methodology

An integrative research design

Chinatown as heterotopia: urban revitalization through linguistic landscape

Geosemiotic characteristics of Chinese stores signage

Geosemiotic characteristics of non-Chinese stores? signage

Chinatown as heterotopia

Situating linguistic landscape in time

Text and history, history of text: tracing discourse trajectories on multiple timescales

Changes in chinatown over a century: people, economy and politics

Civil rights, downtown revitalion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783095629

1783095628

OCLC:

933449765