Drawing on multimodal analysis of graffiti in male public restrooms at the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, this paper investigates how notions of place and gendered/sexualized subjects are discursively (re)constructed in interactions with the materiality and historicity of the public realm. The analysis focuses on the indexicalities of public signage and the ways they (in)form understandings of and access to certain spaces. By investigating the fragmented history of entextualizations of these toilet graffiti as well as the indexicalities of their lexical, graphic, and co(n)textual aspects, we argue that places can be queered since they are semiotically constructed and discursively performed. The paper illustrates how static assumptions about place, gender, and sexuality can be disrupted and ressignified which highlights the pornoheterotopic character of these public restrooms in which semiotic processes that (de)regulate gender and sexual dissidence are emplaced.
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A famous element in Singapore’s food culture is the hawker centre, consisting of a large collection of individually-run stalls selling various kinds of foods and drinks. These centres, which dot the island and its public housing estates, were built on government initiative beginning in the 1970s, with the prime objective of sedentarising the large number of erstwhile itinerant street hawkers, based on a discourse of promoting ‘cleanliness’ inherent to the entire nation-building narrative of the country. The sedentarised hawkers, now divorced from their earlier way of life and often from their earlier neighbourhoods, had to start naming their businesses overtly. Some did so by including references to the geographical location of their earlier area of street hawking. The linguistic landscape of stall signboards in a hawker centre exhibits various attempts to come to terms with this immobilised itineracy.
{"title":"Itineracy immobilised","authors":"Jakob R. E. Leimgruber","doi":"10.1075/LL.17035.LEI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.17035.LEI","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A famous element in Singapore’s food culture is the hawker centre, consisting of a large collection of individually-run stalls\u0000 selling various kinds of foods and drinks. These centres, which dot the island and its public housing estates, were built on\u0000 government initiative beginning in the 1970s, with the prime objective of sedentarising the large number of erstwhile itinerant\u0000 street hawkers, based on a discourse of promoting ‘cleanliness’ inherent to the entire nation-building narrative of the country.\u0000 The sedentarised hawkers, now divorced from their earlier way of life and often from their earlier neighbourhoods, had to start\u0000 naming their businesses overtly. Some did so by including references to the geographical location of their earlier area of street\u0000 hawking. The linguistic landscape of stall signboards in a hawker centre exhibits various attempts to come to terms with this\u0000 immobilised itineracy.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74708060","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":"Terhi Ainiala and Jan-Ola Östman (Eds.). (2017) Socio-onomastics: The Pragmatics of Names","authors":"M. Scott","doi":"10.1075/LL.00005.SCO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.00005.SCO","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73347304","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}
In this qualitative research study, we examine changes made in 23 New York City schools that participated in a project for which participating schools were asked to regard bilingualism as a resource in instruction and develop a multilingual linguistic landscape. Findings document efforts made by schools to change their linguistic landscape in ways that recognize students’ many languages and cultures, significant corresponding ideological shifts by school leaders from monolingual to multilingual views of language and language learning, educators’ incorporation of students’ home languages in instruction, and new formal language education policies resulting from these efforts. We document the impact of all of these changes on students and their families and suggest that research on linguistic landscape conducted in schools should consider not only the physical landscape but also its connections to pedagogy, programming, and language policies.
{"title":"Increasing multilingualism in schoolscapes","authors":"Kate Menken, Vanessa Pérez Rosario, L. G. Valerio","doi":"10.1075/LL.17024.MEN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LL.17024.MEN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this qualitative research study, we examine changes made in 23 New York City schools that participated in a project for which\u0000 participating schools were asked to regard bilingualism as a resource in instruction and develop a multilingual linguistic\u0000 landscape. Findings document efforts made by schools to change their linguistic landscape in ways that recognize students’ many\u0000 languages and cultures, significant corresponding ideological shifts by school leaders from monolingual to multilingual views of\u0000 language and language learning, educators’ incorporation of students’ home languages in instruction, and new formal language\u0000 education policies resulting from these efforts. We document the impact of all of these changes on students and their families and\u0000 suggest that research on linguistic landscape conducted in schools should consider not only the physical landscape but also its\u0000 connections to pedagogy, programming, and language policies.","PeriodicalId":53129,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Landscape-An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74896023","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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