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Space-Time (Dis)continuities in the Linguistic Landscape : Studies in the Symbolic (Re-)appropriation of Public Space.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchstaller, Isabelle.
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semiotics--Social aspects.
- Semiotics.
- Semiotics--Political aspects.
- Space and time in language.
- Signs and signboards--Semiotics.
- Signs and signboards.
- Public spaces--Social aspects.
- Public spaces.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Expanding LL studies to space-time (dis)continuities
- Part I Post-colonial transitions in the LL
- Chapter 1 Plantations, place-naming, and the contested afterlife of slavery
- Chapter 2 The spatial politics of the commemorative street names of Hong Kong
- Chapter 3 Multilingualism for whom in Rwanda?: The nexus of power and practices
- Chapter 4 Politics in the linguistic landscape of Dili, Timor-Leste
- Chapter 5 A tale of two cities: Recycling history through discourses of identity, nostalgia, and heritage
- Chapter 6 Timespace discontinuity in the LL - the case of two slavery sites in Ghana
- Part II Post-communist transformations of the LL
- Chapter 7 Murals as a carrier of change: The transformative power of a street art festival in a small Bulgarian village
- Chapter 8 Commemorative street naming practices in the border towns Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice
- Chapter 9 Street name plates as a mirror of compromised decommunization: The influence of lower-level urban actors on the linguistic streetscape in Ukraine
- Chapter 10 The walls of peril: Belligerent symbolics of post-war murals in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Part III Current contestations in and of the LL
- Chapter 11 The Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh: Linguistic landscape, document, and poetic autoethnography analyses
- Chapter 12 Stonewall was a riot!: Politics in Cologne's Pride
- Chapter 13 Semiotic assemblages in the linguistic landscape of protest in Venezuela
- Chapter 14 Code choice, humour, intertextuality, and the expression of emotions in the linguistic landscape of the women's protest in Poland 2020-2021 versus the 1980s.
- Chapter 15 Production of representational spaces as the political construction of "New Turkey": Re/naming public spaces after the coup attempt
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-04-001225-6
- 1-04-001221-3
- 1-003-31162-8
- 9781003311621
- OCLC:
- 1431975801
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