Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape

ISBN-13: 9781137426277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 306 str.

Rani Rubdy; Selim Ben Said

Opis

This book focuses on the linguistic landscape as a site of conflict, exclusion, and dissent arising from mechanisms of language policy, language politics and language hierarchies. It examines the way language can be used in particular ideologies to marginalize and conceal other language and as a vehicle for social contestation, impacting local communities as well as the vitality of certain sociolinguistic groups.

The chapters engage with exclusion, covering broad socio-historical, economic, political and ideological issues that go much beyond language dimensions, such as the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring. The case studies highlight the role of the linguistic landscape where words and images can demonstrate the tension between the dominance of global capitalism and the grassroots reactions of local communities contending for visibility, social justice and economic and political survival. The book argues that concern with this aspect of the linguistic landscape helps forge links between landscape, identity, social order and power.

Recenzje

"This book has demonstrated an achievement in expanding linguistic landscape research and included many semiotic analyses of resources such as banners, flags, graffiti, cyberspace, and buildings. ... this book is suitable for any postgraduate students who intend to conduct their research on linguistic and semiotic landscapes." (Teresa Ong, The Linguist List, linguistlist.org, August, 2017)

"This collection of essays on Linguistic Landscape (LL) research is organised around the theme of LL as a site of contestation. ... This interesting volume is organised around an important and highly pertinent set of themes. ... its breadth of discussions, most of which are not only thought-provoking but help LL study further establish itself within sociolinguistics." (Robert Blackwood, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016)

Spis treści

1. Conflict and Exclusion: Linguistic Landscape as an Arena of Contestation; Rani Rubdy
PART I: CONFLICT AND EXCLUSION
2. The Passive Exclusion of Irish in the Linguistic Landscape: A Nexus Analysis; Jo Thistlethwaite and Mark Sebba
3. Unseen Spanish in Small-town America: A Minority Language in the Linguistic Landscape; Robert A. Troyer, Carmen Cáceda and Patricia Gimenez Eguíbar
4. Language Removal, Commodification and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity in Nagorno-Karabakh; Sebastian Muth
5. Negotiating Differential Belonging Via the Linguistic Landscape of Taipei; Melissa L. Curtin
6. Semiotic Landscape, Code Choice, and Exclusion; Luanga A. Kasanga
7. Linguistic Landscape and Exclusion: An Examination of Language Representation in Disaster Signage in Japan; Mei Shan Tan and Selim Ben Said
8. 'My Way of Speaking, Appearance, All of Myself has to Change': A Story of Inclusion and Exclusion in an Unequal Learning Space; Ruanni Tupas
9. Mobilizing Affect in the Cyber-linguistic Landscape: The R-word Campaign; Lionel Wee
PART II: DISSENT AND PROTEST
10. Occupy Baltimore: A Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Participatory Social Contestation in an American City; David I. Hanauer
11. Overcoming Erasure: Reappropriation of Space in the Linguistic Landscape of Mass-scale Protests; Corinne A. Seals
12. Co-constructing Dissent in the Transient Linguistic Landscape: Multilingual Protest Signs of the Tunisian Revolution; Sonia Shiri
13. A Linguistic Landscape Analysis of the Sociopolitical Demonstrations of Algiers: A Politicized Landscape; Hayat Messekher
14. A Multimodal Analysis of the Graffiti Commemorating the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks: Constructing Self-understandings of a Senseless Violence; Rani Rubdy

O autorze

Selim Ben Said, Chinese University of Hong Kong Carmen Cáceda, Western Oregon University, USA Melissa L. Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Patricia Giménez Eguíbar, Western Oregon University, USA David I. Hanauer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA Luanga A. Kasanga, University of Bahrain Hayat Messekher, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Bouzaréah, Algeria Sebastian Muth, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Rani Rubdy, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Corinne Seals, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Mark Sebba, Lancaster University, UK Sonia Shiri, University of Arizona, USA Mei Shan Tan, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jo Thistlethwaite, Lancaster University, UK Rob Troyer, Western Oregon University, USA Ruanni Tupas, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lionel Wee, National University of Singapore