1. Linguistic Landscape and Language Vitality

Barni, Monica; Bagna, Carla

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“…Relative street visibility does indeed go together with demographic detail to a certain degree, but it does not coincide with it. Similarly, Barni and Bagna (2010) found that the most visible and dominating language in the Esquilino neighbourhood in Rome was Chinese, although demographic data showed that the largest immigrant populations are from Bangladesh, the Philippines and Romania. In this light, the LL must be seen as a tool or an indication of the functionality (both symbolic, informative, political or economic) of languages in the public space and not per se of language vitality in the sense of languages spoken by inhabitants or language hierarchies as prescribed by law and officialdom.…”

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“…An important implication of the diversification of meaning in Brussels' landscapes as discussed in this paper (e.g. due to mobility, commodification and recontextualisation of languages) is the fact that one can no longer assume a direct, straightforward correlation Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development between a language's visibility in the public space and its vitality, communicative functionality or its spoken presence in the setting (Leeman and Modan 2009;Barni and Bagna 2010), as originally proposed by Landry and Bourhis (1997). The fact that English, Thai or Chinese frequently occur in shop signs in Brussels, for example, does not index the local presence of a vibrant English-, Thai-or Chinese-speaking speech community per se.…”

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Language visibility, functionality and meaning across various TimeSpace scales in Brussels' multilingual landscapes

Vandenbroucke

2014

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This paper addresses the complex multilingual linguistic landscapes (LLs) of three strategically-chosen areas in global city Brussels by examining how language displays on public signage in these areas are used for different purposes, functions or intentions. The focus will be on meaning-construction in the post-Fordist globalised era as shaped by different contextual scales. By drawing on a systematic corpus of linguistic landscape data indicative of language visibility and functionality patterns in each of these three areas and by drawing on a small selection of interviews with shop-owners, this study will discuss the 'landscapes' and diverse displays of Brussels' three 'big' languages (French, English and Dutch) and 'ethnoscapes' (Appadurai 1990) of their attendant transnational communities of tourists, immigrants and expats. In order to assess these differences in functionality and meaning, the geographical notion of TimeSpace scales is applied as an analytical and interpretative concept and as a metaphor most apt to study sociolinguistic processes and phenomena of globalisation. This more interpretative, scale-sensitive and contextualised approach to LL and language meaning is also in line with recent arguments in favour of qualitative, interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic landscape research

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Language visibility, functionality and meaning across various TimeSpace scales in Brussels' multilingual landscapes

Vandenbroucke

2014

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…LL can also serve as a tool for the study of language contacts, their dynamics, social relations behind it and many other indicators of the life of a language and its interaction with other semiotic systems. The visibility of a language in LL is an important indicator of its vitality [11].…”

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Multilingualism in the Linguistic Landscape of Moscow Based on Inscriptions on Children’s Toys

Kirilina¹,

Kuptsova²

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Pedagogy, Communication and Sociology (ICPCS 2019)

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The paper deals with the peculiarities of the Moscow linguistic landscape (LL) based on the observations made by the authors in the years 2010-2018. Personal experience has been considered as valuable resource and facility for registration social changes through language changes. The appeal to the self-reflection of the native speaker, within the boundaries of which the clash of the old and the new, one's own and another's, acceptable and unacceptable, is recognized as legitimate by increasing number of scientists. The results of the study of a linguistic landscape fragment of Moscow are being presented. The subject matters of the research are the commercial signs, collected in the sphere of the children's toys. The description unit is a text, written on the material object, a package or a toy itself, if it is inscribed. The main groups of inscriptions: monolingual, bilingual and multilingual have been found; each of them has been identified by their percentage and regulatory compliance.

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“…Initial documentation and analysis of LL dynamics involved quantitative-based methods, counting the presence of various semiotic variables on signs to discuss LL components and their relationships (Cenoz and Gorter, 2006;Landry and Bourhis, 1997). While such methods have been critiqued for potential risk of overgeneralization in the assignment of quantifiable categories (Barni and Bagna, 2010;Blommaert and Maly, 2014), current scholarship has encouraged the development of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, both separately and in tandem, to explore the complexities of LL contexts (Amos, 2016;Barni and Bagna, 2015;Blackwood, 2015;Lyons and Rodriguez, 2015).…”

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Lyons

Karimzad

2019

Sociolinguistic Studies

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This paper explores the processes through which visceral experience is cultivated, packaged and commodi?ed in the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of South Delhi, India. We engage the theoretical concept of cultural chronotopes (Agha, 2007a) to demonstrate how spatially and temporally entwined experiences of nostalgia and modernity are produced in South Delhi’s commercial LL, and show how such positioning serves to compress or ?atten such experiences for ready consumption (Kockelman, 2006). Focusing on particularized chronotopes tied to a privileged and elite experience, imagination and aspiration, we highlight how discourses of the ‘ideal’ are reproduced and positioned as visceral through speci?c references or semiotic arrangements. In so doing, we discuss the quanti?cation of experience executed by these signs in commodifying the visceral, and the problematic way these instances propagate an idealized, sanitized and simpli?ed understanding of Indian rural communities, Indian history and Indian traditional practices.

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Language visibility, functionality and meaning across various TimeSpace scales in Brussels' multilingual landscapes

Language visibility, functionality and meaning across various TimeSpace scales in Brussels' multilingual landscapes

Multilingualism in the Linguistic Landscape of Moscow Based on Inscriptions on Children’s Toys

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