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The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19
Edited by Jackie Jia Lou, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck
[Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3] 2022
► pp. 202–218

Hybrid places

The reconfiguration of domestic space in the time of Covid-19

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This article is about adaptations to the regimentation of public and private living through the reorganisation of domestic space and time routines a year into changeable Covid-related restrictions. The discussion is based on narratives and audio-visual artefacts generated by participants from 20 UK households through the methodology of photovoice and that articulate domestic-related boundary-making processes and forms of space hybridisation in the ongoing changes caused by the pandemic. In the article, Covid-19 signage is represented by language and other semiotic markings that engender an inside spatial and social semiotics and that stands in a dialogic relationship with the outside spatial and social semiotics as dictated by the pandemic, and where domestic landscapes articulate forms of transmedia code-mixing that invest written words, sounds, and screens.

Keywords: hybrid, domestic, space, linguistic landscape, Covid-19
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Methodology
  • 3.Data and discussion
    • 3.1Domesticating the public, or taking the inside outside
    • 3.2Thresholds
    • 3.3Un-domesticating the private – Bringing the outside inside
    • 3.4Staging the self, gazing the self
  • 4.Conclusive remarks
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 1 September 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.21043.tuf
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