Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community
Edited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
Leonie Gaiser
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leonie Gaiser plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2020 Defining the position of ‘community’ in the study of linguistic landscapes Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community, Gaiser, Leonie and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 109–127 | Article
This special issue explores how multilingual (and semiotic) landscapes relate to constructions of community. With the present introduction we aim to embed theoretical notions of ‘community’ into the study of Linguistic Landscapes (henceforth LL). We first discuss how the notion of ‘community’ has… read more
2020 Signage as event: Deriving ‘community’ from language practice Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community, Gaiser, Leonie and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 213–236 | Article
Our aim in this paper is to propose a framework to analyse the relationship between language choice on signs in multilingual environments, place, and notions of ‘community’. We focus on an interpretation of the goals pursued by sign owners, exploring how linguistic (and non-linguistic) resources… read more