The communicative Linguistic Landscape: Production formats and designed environmentsLionel Wee (2021)London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 186ISBN: 9780367701031 (pbk)ISBN: 9780367898205 (hbk)ISBN: 9781003021315 (eBook)
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This article presents an analysis of the soundscapes in two rural communities in northwestern Papua New Guinea where the endangered languages Srenge and Walman are spoken. These languages have no written tradition and therefore are not publicly displayed in signage. In the last few years, the discipline of linguistic landscape studies has fostered the study of aspects of the visual semiotics of public signs together with aspects of other semiotic modalities including interactional semiotics and auditory semiotics. By discussing the sounds of instruments, conch shells, place names, recitations, and messenger birds in areas where Srenge, Walman, and other languages are spoken, the aim is twofold. The first goal is to fill a gap in the study of semiotic systems that play a role in linguistic landscapes by focusing on a rural area and on auditory semiotics. The second goal is to document anthropological knowledge in an area that is extremely rich culturally and linguistically but where language attrition and cultural loss have been greatly accelerated in the last few decades.
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This article focuses on the linguistic landscape of Noaiwia, one of thirteen villages located on Nguna Island off the north coast of Efate, Vanuatu. It contributes to the understanding of the linguistic landscape of a small village in a previously undocumented rural setting in the understudied islands of Southeast Asia and Oceania. Using a corpus of photographs and detailed qualitative interpretation of the visual and verbal signs found around the village, the analysis first highlights the near absence of the island’s indigenous language in the public space. An analysis of the signage found at the school further suggests the exclusive presence and high status of the English language. A contrastive analysis also shows a different linguistic landscape from the one found in Vanuatu’s capital city Port Vila. Finally, the article looks at the presence of the Chinese language on a water tank, a reflection of China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road programme in the Pacific. The results are discussed in relation to the status of indigenous languages and Bislama, the islands’ lingua franca, language policy in education in Vanuatu, and language ideology in a globalised world.
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Everyday multilingualism: Linguistic Landscapes as practice and pedagogyAnikó Hatoss (2022)London and New York: Routledge. Pp 212ISBN: 9780367764586 (hbk)ISBN: 9781003293781 (eBook
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Multilingualism across the lifespanUnn Røyneland and Robert Blackwood (eds) (2022)London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 252ISBN: 978-0-367-64682-0 (hbk)ISBN: 978-0-367-64686-8 (pbk)ISBN: 978-1-003-12581-5 (ebk)
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Spaces of multilingualismRobert Blackwood and Unn Røyneland (eds) (2022)London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 226ISBN: 9780367646899 (hbk)ISBN: 9781003125839 (ebook)
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Jacqueline Militello, Andre Joseph Theng, Yik Lam Charmaine Kong, Jaspal Naveel Singh
Lamma Island, while only a short 30-minute ferry ride from the intensely metropolitan centre of Hong Kong Island, the ‘most vertical city’ in the world, represents a rural diametric as an ‘outlying island’: lightly populated with both a long-standing local population and a transient ‘expatriate’ population. We argue that the main village Yung Shue Wan represents a ‘border nexus’ between the urban and the rural. This becomes evident through our autoethnographic linguistic landscape (LL) approach, where the four authors use four different positionalities towards understanding how displayed discourse is oriented to multiple centres of authority – that is, the municipal, regional, communal, and touristic – creating Lamma’s unique polycentric sense of place. We show that polycentricity is not only intrinsic to signs but is also contingent on those who read them. We foreground the role of autoethnographic reflexivity in LL analysis, as collaboratively studied via video conferencing tools in light of the pandemic.
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This study focuses on examining how multiculturalism is constructed in public spaces in Penang, Malaysia. In doing so, we argue for the significance of murals in constructing multiculturalism symbolically. Data consist of 10 photos of murals displayed during the 2020 Penang International Container Art Festival in both urban and rural areas in Penang, a state with a long history of multiethnic communities living together. The analysis shows that multiculturalism is portrayed according to specific themes – occupation, living culture, and imagination – which are marshalled to create a sense of identity and belonging. Such sense is deeply imbricated in the making process of Penang’s national identity in which a series of compromises and accommodations is much needed to achieve the vision of multiculturalism. The findings contribute to the current discussion of finding a balance between studies related to urban- and ruralscapes and offer a creative sociolinguistic perspective on understanding multiculturalism.
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Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia: The politics of language and public signageSeyed Hadi Mirvahedi (ed.) (2022)London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 230ISBN: 9781032277028 (hbk)ISBN: 9781003166993 (eBook)
东南亚的语言景观：语言政治与公共标识Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi（编辑）（2022 年），伦敦和纽约：Pp.230ISBN: 9781032277028 (hbk)ISBN: 9781003166993 (eBook)
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Discourses, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: A multimodal discourse analysis approachSabine Tan and Marissa K. L. E (eds) (2022)London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 276ISBN: 978-0-367-76707-5 (hbk)ISBN: 978-0-367-76709-9 (pbk)ISBN: 978-1-003-16819-5 (eBook)
大流行病时代的话语、模式、媒体和意义：Sabine Tan 和 Marissa K. L. E（编）（2022 年），伦敦和纽约：Pp.Pp. 276ISBN: 978-0-367-76707-5 (hbk)ISBN: 978-0-367-76709-9 (pbk)ISBN: 978-1-003-16819-5 (eBook)
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