| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Advances in sociolinguistics |
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Advances in sociolinguistics.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introducing Semiotic Landscapes / Crispin Thurlow / Adam Jaworski -- 1. Changing Landscapes: Language, Space and Policy in the Dublin Linguistic Landscape / Jeffrey L. Kallen -- 2. Discourses in Transit / Mark Sebba -- 3. Welsh Linguistic Landscapes 'From Above' and 'From Below' / Nikolas Coupland -- 4. Ideological Struggles on Signage in Jamaica / Susan Dray -- 5. Sex in the City: On Making Space and Identity in Travel Spaces / Ingrid Piller -- 6. Spatial Narrations: Graffscapes and City Souls / Alastair Pennycook -- 7. Cyberspace and Physical Space: Attention Structures in Computer Mediated Communication / Rodney H. Jones -- 8. 'A Latino Community Takes Hold': Reproducing Semiotic Landscapes in Media Discourse / Thomas D. Mitchell -- 9. Silence is Golden: The 'Anti-communicational' Linguascaping of Super-elite Mobility / Crispin Thurlow / Adam Jaworski -- 10. War Monuments and the Changing Discourses of Nation and Soldiery / Gill Abousnnouga / David Machin -- 11. Building the Nation, Writing the Past: History and Textuality at the Ha'apala Memorial in Tel Aviv-Jaffa / Elana Shohamy / Shoshi Waksman -- 12. Faces of Places: Facades as Global Communication in Post-Eastern Bloc Urban Renewal / Irina Gendelman / Giorgia Aiello -- 13. Semiosis Takes Place or Radical Uses of Quaint Theories / Ella Chmielewska |
| Summary |
Semiotic Landscapes is an exciting addition to the study of linguistic landscapes. It looks at how landscape generates meaning and combines three major areas of scholarly interest each concerned with central dimensions of contemporary life: language and visual discourse, spatial practices, and also the changes bought about by global capitalism and ever increasing mediatization. The editors look at: the textual/discursive construction of place; the use of space as a semiotic resource; the extent to which these processes are shaped by wider economic and political re-orderings of post-industrial |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Semiotics.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects.
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sociolinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects
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Semiotics
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Sociolinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jaworski, Adam, 1957-
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Thurlow, Crispin.
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| ISBN |
9781441145727 |
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1441145729 |
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1847061826 |
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9781847061829 |
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661255200X |
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9786612552007 |
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1282552007 |
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9781282552005 |
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