We often talk about ‘entering another world’ when we read a book. In this article it is argued that the way in which languages are presented in a picturebook can be seen as a linguistic landscape within the wider linguistic landscape of the world we are in. Previous studies of the linguistic landscape of bilingual picturebooks have shown that minority languages are afforded less space. In this article the linguistic landscape of 24 multilingual picturebooks from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Munich, Germany) are analysed. Findings show that languages given dominance in terms of order, size, and information mostly reflect the sociolinguistic setting in which these books are published, replicating power structures and potentially having negative implications for the ethnolinguistic vitality of minority language groups and their language maintenance or revitalisation. The potential effect on readers’ developing language attitudes is also explored.
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A linguistic landscape analysis, grounded in the ideas of contestation and resistance (Blackwood, Lanza, & Woldemariam, 2016; Rubdy & Ben Said, 2015) and carried out using Scollon and Scollon’s (2003) concept of place semiotics, was conducted in four cities located in the Asturias region of Northern Spain. The primary goals of the study were to investigate and interpret the (in)visibility of Asturian, an endangered language spoken primarily in and around the capital city of Oviedo. Distinct patterns on public signage involving font alterations, layering, and material selections indicate that the linguistic landscape was being used as an asynchronous public forum between Asturian advocates and unseen actors. Drawing on similar studies of deliberately modified linguistic landscapes (Gorter, Aiestaran, & Cenoz, 2012; Tupas, 2015), this paper introduces the concept of the asynchronously layered linguistic landscape in which evidence of contestation and resistance can be found in strategic juxtapositions of sign materiality.
{"title":"Signs of resistance in the Asturian linguistic landscape","authors":"Paul Sebastian","doi":"10.1075/ll.18015.seb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.18015.seb","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A linguistic landscape analysis, grounded in the ideas of contestation and resistance (Blackwood, Lanza, & Woldemariam, 2016; Rubdy & Ben Said,\u0000 2015) and carried out using Scollon and Scollon’s (2003) concept of place\u0000 semiotics, was conducted in four cities located in the Asturias region of Northern Spain. The primary goals of the study were to\u0000 investigate and interpret the (in)visibility of Asturian, an endangered language spoken primarily in and around the capital city\u0000 of Oviedo. Distinct patterns on public signage involving font alterations, layering, and material selections indicate that the\u0000 linguistic landscape was being used as an asynchronous public forum between Asturian advocates and unseen actors. Drawing on\u0000 similar studies of deliberately modified linguistic landscapes (Gorter, Aiestaran, &\u0000 Cenoz, 2012; Tupas, 2015), this paper introduces the concept of the\u0000 asynchronously layered linguistic landscape in which evidence of contestation and resistance can be found in strategic\u0000 juxtapositions of sign materiality.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87028267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The grapheme and symbolxhas been documented as relatively indeterminate and polysemic (e.g.Gale, 2015). Yet, various typographic, orthographic and other design choices make it particularly salient in the contemporary semiotic landscape. The paper starts by outlining briefly the history of the changing uses and associations ofxin different areas of social life. This is followed by discussion of the typographic and orthographic salience ofx, emphasizing its unique, unsettling, and ‘foreignizing’ effect on displayed language. The paper concludes by linking the salience ofxwith a global verbal-visual register that I have called ‘globalese’ (Jaworski, 2015a), and by briefly pointing to its origins in the typographic experiments of avant-garde art.
{"title":"X","authors":"A. Jaworski","doi":"10.1075/ll.18029.jaw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.18029.jaw","url":null,"abstract":"The grapheme and symbolxhas been documented as relatively indeterminate and polysemic (e.g.Gale, 2015). Yet, various typographic, orthographic and other design choices make it particularly salient in the contemporary semiotic landscape. The paper starts by outlining briefly the history of the changing uses and associations ofxin different areas of social life. This is followed by discussion of the typographic and orthographic salience ofx, emphasizing its unique, unsettling, and ‘foreignizing’ effect on displayed language. The paper concludes by linking the salience ofxwith a global verbal-visual register that I have called ‘globalese’ (Jaworski, 2015a), and by briefly pointing to its origins in the typographic experiments of avant-garde art.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87253111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Spatially interested sociolinguistics has cared little about the semiotics of nonexistence. The present article argues that the field would benefit from deepening its interest in questions of erasure and relative absence. A case in point, as the article shows, is graffiti. By analysing some semiotic facets of the erasure of graffiti, the article brings home the point that a semiotics of nonexistence is deeply embedded in the semiotic regimentation of space. The persistence of this condition calls for an analytical sensitisation to less obvious forms of semiosis.
{"title":"A semiotics of nonexistence?","authors":"D. Karlander","doi":"10.1075/LL.18023.KAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.18023.KAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Spatially interested sociolinguistics has cared little about the semiotics of nonexistence. The present article\u0000 argues that the field would benefit from deepening its interest in questions of erasure and relative absence. A case in point, as\u0000 the article shows, is graffiti. By analysing some semiotic facets of the erasure of graffiti, the article brings home the point\u0000 that a semiotics of nonexistence is deeply embedded in the semiotic regimentation of space. The persistence of this condition\u0000 calls for an analytical sensitisation to less obvious forms of semiosis.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78109817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper considers the interplay of physical and digital landscaping in the Mission District (‘the Mission’), a gentrified neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Aligned with recent work on affect and people’s mediations of the linguistic landscape (Wee, 2016; Banda & Jimaima, 2015), I examine how the Mission is filtered – literally and figuratively – in a corpus of 16,756 Instagram posts. Comparing these digital remediated productions of place to the physical landscape, I demonstrate how both are structured semiotically along exclusionary lines. Contrary to the democratic and inclusive mythology of digital / social media, I show how users’ self-positionings and elitist stancetaking (Jaworski & Thurlow, 2009; Mapes, forthcoming) effectively reinscribe privilege and reiterate gentrification of the Mission. As mining of ‘big data’ becomes increasingly valued as empirically ‘objective’ information, my analysis demonstrates geotagged content should not be viewed as a static indicator, but as a subjective, dynamic and – at times – problematic process.
{"title":"Let’s get phygital","authors":"K. Lyons","doi":"10.1075/LL.18025.LYO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.18025.LYO","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper considers the interplay of physical and digital landscaping in the Mission District (‘the Mission’), a\u0000 gentrified neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Aligned with recent work on affect and people’s mediations of the linguistic\u0000 landscape (Wee, 2016; Banda & Jimaima, 2015), I examine how the Mission is\u0000 filtered – literally and figuratively – in a corpus of 16,756 Instagram posts. Comparing these digital\u0000 remediated productions of place to the physical landscape, I demonstrate how both are structured semiotically along exclusionary\u0000 lines. Contrary to the democratic and inclusive mythology of digital / social media, I show how users’ self-positionings and\u0000 elitist stancetaking (Jaworski & Thurlow, 2009; Mapes, forthcoming) effectively reinscribe privilege and reiterate gentrification of the Mission. As mining of ‘big\u0000 data’ becomes increasingly valued as empirically ‘objective’ information, my analysis demonstrates geotagged content should not be\u0000 viewed as a static indicator, but as a subjective, dynamic and – at times – problematic process.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79741479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Central district is the government, financial, and business center of Hong Kong. Yet, on Sundays, it turns temporarily into a space densely occupied by migrant domestic workers from the Philippines. It is then that Tagalog emerges as a valuable linguistic resource in the center of Hong Kong, primarily as it is used on commercial signage as well as by speakers of other languages who see the presence of Filipinos – predominantly female domestic workers – as a business opportunity. Other signs in central Hong Kong that include Tagalog are regulatory, indexing the same Filipinos as low status domestic workers. Using the key concepts of sociolinguistic scales (Blommaert, 2007) and center-periphery dynamics (Pietikäinen & Kelly-Holmes, 2013), I analyze the underlying forces relevant to Tagalog’s (and hence its speakers) symbolic centering and peripheralization in Hong Kong’s semiotic landscape.
{"title":"The place/s of Tagalog in Hong Kong’s Central district","authors":"N. Guinto","doi":"10.1075/LL.18024.GUI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.18024.GUI","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Central district is the government, financial, and business center of Hong Kong. Yet, on Sundays, it turns\u0000 temporarily into a space densely occupied by migrant domestic workers from the Philippines. It is then that Tagalog emerges as a\u0000 valuable linguistic resource in the center of Hong Kong, primarily as it is used on commercial signage as well as by speakers of\u0000 other languages who see the presence of Filipinos – predominantly female domestic workers – as a business opportunity. Other signs\u0000 in central Hong Kong that include Tagalog are regulatory, indexing the same Filipinos as low status domestic workers. Using the\u0000 key concepts of sociolinguistic scales (Blommaert, 2007) and\u0000 center-periphery dynamics (Pietikäinen & Kelly-Holmes, 2013),\u0000 I analyze the underlying forces relevant to Tagalog’s (and hence its speakers) symbolic centering and peripheralization in Hong\u0000 Kong’s semiotic landscape.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79945303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper proposes refugeescapes as a framework for expanding the focus of semiotic landscape studies by centering migration, inequality, and social exclusion. In so doing, the article adds to the work of Mpendukana and Stroud (2018) and Kerfoot and Hytlenstam (2017) in uncovering how place is structured by issues of affect, voice, and visibility. In my paper, I turn to a case study of the spatializing practices of refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland, and the ways they counteract the mainstream semiotic mediation of their experiences. In particular, I focus on the semiotic landscapes of transgressive intent where asylum seekers address mistreatment in their host country. By examining material produced by refugees and asylum seekers themselves, my paper demonstrates how enclosed spaces are a methodological venue for the field, while arguing also for a more thorough engagement with the theory and politics of visibility/voice.
{"title":"Regimes of voice and visibility in the refugeescape","authors":"M. Moriarty","doi":"10.1075/LL.19002.MOR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.19002.MOR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper proposes refugeescapes as a framework for expanding the focus of semiotic landscape\u0000 studies by centering migration, inequality, and social exclusion. In so doing, the article adds to the work of Mpendukana and Stroud (2018) and Kerfoot and\u0000 Hytlenstam (2017) in uncovering how place is structured by issues of affect, voice, and visibility. In my paper, I turn\u0000 to a case study of the spatializing practices of refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland, and the ways they counteract the\u0000 mainstream semiotic mediation of their experiences. In particular, I focus on the semiotic landscapes of transgressive\u0000 intent where asylum seekers address mistreatment in their host country. By examining material produced by refugees\u0000 and asylum seekers themselves, my paper demonstrates how enclosed spaces are a methodological venue for the field, while arguing\u0000 also for a more thorough engagement with the theory and politics of visibility/voice.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90336653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the use of Moroccan Arabic (MA) in the new Linguistic Landscape (LL) in Morocco, and in particular in the city of Meknés, in a new neighbourhood known as (حمرية) Hamriya or La Ville Nouvelle. In particular, the ways in which current socio-economic transformations produce new spaces of communications are explored, highlighting the extent to which MA is used in urban public spaces as new linguistic practices. In turn, the increasing visibility of MA in the LL and its subsequent nourishing of hybrid practices are discussed. The data points to a re-semiotisation of space in a Moroccan linguistic regime historically characterized by a well-established linguistic hierarchy. Ultimately, the use of MA creates new language practices and policies that resist and transform the sociolinguistic regime which is analysed here by a close examination of linguistic variation in Arabic in the public space.
本文探讨摩洛哥阿拉伯语(MA)在摩洛哥新语言景观(LL)中的使用情况，特别是在mekn市，一个名为(حمرية) Hamriya或La Ville Nouvelle的新社区。特别是，当前社会经济变革产生新的交流空间的方式进行了探索，突出了MA作为新的语言实践在城市公共空间中的使用程度。此外，还讨论了MA在LL中日益增加的可见度及其对杂交实践的后续滋养。数据指出了摩洛哥语言政权历史上以建立良好的语言等级为特征的空间再符号化。最终，MA的使用创造了新的语言实践和政策，抵制和改变社会语言学制度，这里通过仔细检查阿拉伯语在公共空间的语言变化来分析。
{"title":"Transforming the urban public space","authors":"Adil Moustaoui","doi":"10.1075/LL.18008.MOU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.18008.MOU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the use of Moroccan Arabic (MA) in the new Linguistic Landscape (LL) in Morocco, and in\u0000 particular in the city of Meknés, in a new neighbourhood known as (حمرية)\u0000 Hamriya or La Ville Nouvelle. In particular, the ways in which current socio-economic\u0000 transformations produce new spaces of communications are explored, highlighting the extent to which MA is used in urban public\u0000 spaces as new linguistic practices. In turn, the increasing visibility of MA in the LL and its subsequent nourishing of hybrid\u0000 practices are discussed. The data points to a re-semiotisation of space in a Moroccan linguistic regime historically characterized\u0000 by a well-established linguistic hierarchy. Ultimately, the use of MA creates new language practices and policies that resist and\u0000 transform the sociolinguistic regime which is analysed here by a close examination of linguistic variation in Arabic in the public\u0000 space.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78299336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constanze Weth and Kasper Juffermans (Eds.). (2018). The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written\u0000 Word","authors":"B. Spolsky","doi":"10.1075/LL.00010.SPO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.00010.SPO","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word 97814742924679781474292443£85.50","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75157352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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