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Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes Amiena Peck (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes By Amiena Peck (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes by Amiena Peck (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

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Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes by Amiena Peck (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places'. It explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics of place. Drawing on examples of linguistic landscapes (LL) over the world, such as gentrified landscapes in Johannesburg and Brunswick, Mozambican memorializations, volatile train graffiti in Stockholm, Brazilian protest marches, Guadeloupian Creole signs, microscapes of souvenirs in Guinea-Bissau and old landscapes of apartheid in South Africa in contemporary time, this book explores how we are what we are through how we are emplaced. Across these examples, world-leading contributors explore how LLs contribute to the (re)imagining of different selves in the living past (living the past in the present), alternative presents and imagined futures. It focuses particularly on how the LL in all of these mediations is read through emotionality and affect, creating senses of belonging, precarity and hope across a simultaneous multiplicity of worlds. The volume offers a reframing of linguistics landscape research in a geohumanities framework emphasizing negotiations of self in place in LL studies, building upon a rich body of LL research. With over 40 illustrations, it covers various methodological and epistemological issues, such as the need for extended temporal engagement with landscapes, a mobile approach to landscapes and how bodies engage with texts.

Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes Reviews

The editors have accomplished something truly vital here. Marking an important, energizing step forwards in semiotic landscape studies, we have a volume which unapologetically centers people and the ways they live in/with place - feeling spaces, imagining spaces, embodying spaces, and inserting or asserting themselves into/over spaces. Teaming with new voices and new ideas, this collection will expand our ecologies and, quite literally, our horizons. * Crispin Thurlow, Professor of Language and Communication, University of Bern, Switzerland *
People create, occupy and consume linguistic landscapes. Simple. Brilliant! * Adam Jaworski, Chair Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong *
Linguistic Landscape scholars have demonstrated that they can energise and strengthen sociolinguistics. In this inspiring volume the authors analyse in various contexts the relationship between place and how people make sense of themselves and others. They discuss issues of identity, community and materiality in important ways. These innovative ideas will have an impact on theoretical and methodological approaches and will be a basis for exciting lines of research in future work on Linguistic Landscapes. * Durk Gorter, Ikerbasque Research Professor, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain *

About Amiena Peck (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

Amiena Peck is Lecturer in the Linguistics Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Christopher Stroud is Senior Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Multlingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Quentin Williams is Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Amiena Peck, Quentin Williams and Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) Part I: Living the Past in the Present 1. Zombi landscapes: representations of apartheid in the discourses of young South Africans, Zannie Bock and Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 2. Orders of (In)visibility: Colonial and postcolonial chronotopes in linguistic landscapes of memorization in Maputo, Manuel Guissemo (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3. Chronoscape of Authenticity: consumption and aspiration in a middle-class market in Johannesburg, Gilles Baro (Wits University, South Africa) 4. Mobile semiosis and mutable metro spaces: Train graffiti in Stockholm's public transport system, David Karlander (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Part II: Alternative Places, Alternative People 5. Skinscapes with Frictions: an Analysis of Zef Hip Hop Stoeka Style Tattoos, Amiena Peck and Quentin Williams (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 6. The Linguistic Landscape creating a new sense of community: Guadeloupean Creole, the general strike of 2009, Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool, UK) 7. Negotiating institutional identity on a Corsican university campus, Will Amos (University of Warwick, UK) 8. The Semiotic Paradox of Gentrification: the commodification of place and linguistic fetishization of Bushwick's graffscapes, Kellie Goncalves (University of Oslo, Norway) Part III: Imagining Futures, Imagining Selves 9. The geopolitics of hate and hope in the linguistic landscape of a political crisis, Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 10. Of Monkeys, Shacks and Loos: Changing times, Changing Place, Sibonile Mpendukana (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 11. Micro-landscapes and the double semiotic horizon of mobility in the global South, Kasper Juffermans (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) 12. Afterword, David Malinowski (Yale University, USA) Index

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NLS9781350159532
9781350159532
1350159530
Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes by Amiena Peck (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Amiena Peck (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Advances in Sociolinguistics
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2020-04-30
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