Publications

Publication details [#64637]

Buckingham, Louisa. 2018. Race, space and commerce in multi-ethnic Costa Rica: a linguistic landscape inquiry. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018 (254) : 1–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

commercial language | ethnicity | language and culture | minority | race

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

Costa Rica officially became a multi-ethnic, pluricultural nation in 2015. This paper explores the public display of linguistic and cultural diversity on commercial and community signage in six urban centres of Limón, the most ethnically varied province of Costa Rica.