Space-Time (Dis)continuities in the Linguistic Landscape

ISBN-13: 9781032318448 / Twarda / 2024 / 336 str.

Opis

This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century.

Spis treści

Contents

 

List of Contributors

 

Introduction (Isabelle Buchstaller, Małgorzata Fabiszak, Melody Ann Ross)

 

Part 1: Post-colonial transitions in the LL

Chapter 1: Plantations, place-naming, and the contested afterlife of slavery (Derek Alderman)

Chapter 2: The spatial politics of the commemorative street names of Hong Kong (Wenchuan Huang)

Chapter 3: Multilingualism for whom in Rwanda? The nexus of power and practices (Tove Rosendal)

Chapter 4: Politics in the linguistic landscape of Dili, Timor-Leste (Melody Ann Ross)

Chapter 5: A tale of two cities: Recycling history through discourses of identity, nostalgia and heritage (Rani Rubdy)

Chapter 6: Time-space discontinuity in the LL – the case of two slavery sites in Ghana (Stefania Tufi, Robert Blackwood and Jemima Asabea Anderson)

 

Part 2: Post-communist transformations of the LL

Chapter 7: Murals as a carrier of change: The transformative power of a street art festival in a small Bulgarian village (Patryk P. Borowiak)

Chapter 8: Commemorative street naming practices in the border towns Frankfurt (Oder) / Słubice (Małgorzata Fabiszak, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anna Weronika Brzezińska, and Seraphim Alvanides)

Chapter 9: Street name plates as a mirror of compromised decommunization: The influence of lower-level urban actors on the linguistic streetscape in Ukraine (Oleksiy Gnatiuk and Anatoliy Melnychuk)

 

Chapter 10: Belligerent symbolics of post-war murals in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Maida Kosatica)

 

Part 3: Current contestations in and of the LL

Chapter 11: The Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh: Linguistic landscape, document, and poetic autoethnography analyses (David Hanauer)

Chapter 12: Stonewall was a riot!: Politics in Cologne's Pride (Hannah Sawall)

Chapter 13: Semiotic assemblages in the linguistic landscapes of protest in Venezuela (Jessica Velásquez Urribarrí)

Chapter 14: Code choice, humour, intertextuality, and the expression of emotions in the linguistic landscape of the women’s protest in Poland 2020-2021 vs. the 1980s (Michał Wasilewski)

Chapter 15: Production of representational spaces as the political construction of “New Turkey”: Re/naming public spaces after the coup attempt (Ece Yoltay)

Index

 

 

 

 

O autorze

Isabelle Buchstaller is Professor of English Linguistics and director of the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Małgorzata Fabiszak is a University Professor, Faculty of English, and head of the Department of Cognitive Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.

Melody Ann Ross is a sociolinguist and researcher in the Sociolinguistics Lab at the Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.