7. Multilingual Audio Announcements: Power and Identity

Hu, Ying-hsueh

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“…The aim of this article is to explore the semiotic landscapes created by spectres. Beyond visibility and representation, some semiotic landscapes scholars have accounted for other senses, such as smell (Pennycook & Otsuji 2015), sound (Hu 2018;Schulte 2021) or even absence of sound, such as silence (Jaworski 2018), thus decentring from the principal role of visible, material, corporeal, or linguistic signs. This article attempts to go a step further and explores spectral landscapes that emerge through haunting, bringing to life the ghosts of Ukraine.…”

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Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Volvach

2023

Lang. Soc.

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This article aims to illuminate absences in the semiotic landscape of Crimea, resulting from the erasure of Ukraine after Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014. By foregrounding what is not there, the study expands semiotic landscapes studies and critical sociolinguistic research more generally by interrogating absence and its haunting effects. More than 3,500 photographs of semiotic landscapes collected over two months of fieldwork between 2017 and 2019 together with fieldnotes serve as ethnographic data. The production of absence is interrogated through an analysis of its material effects, that is, voids, holes, and blank walls. It concludes that erasure does not simply negate Ukraine. Instead, pasts remain present, visible, and audible in semiotic landscapes. Absences, as part of a relational ontology of materiality, discourse, and affect, shout about complex invisibilized histories of violence. In this way, they suggest the need to probe traditional approaches in semiotic landscape research that rely on an ontology of presence. (Absence, trace, materiality, ghost, spectre, haunting, Crimea, Ukraine, semiotic landscape, linguistic landscape, interdiscursivity)*

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Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Volvach

2023

Lang. Soc.

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“…The literature establishes that such participants could also be other types of interactant, rather than viewers of images, depending on the media of the landscape under investigation: see e.g. Pennycook and Otsuji (2011) on the spatialised semiotics of 'smellscapes ' and Hu (2018) on listeners in public soundscapes. This article therefore uses the general term 'participants' for those who participate in landscapes and participated in the study.…”

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Perceptions of invisible Zhuang minority language in Linguistic Landscapes of the People’s Republic of China and implications for language policy

Grey

2021

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The article presents data from a 2013–2019 ethnography of Zhuang language policy to support an analysis of implications for language policy research and scholarship of findings about the (in)visibility of publicly displayed Zhuang. The analysis challenges core assumptions of language policy-making, advocacy and scholarship and explicates the general implications of this challenge beyond China, particularly for minority languages. The most important assumption that this article interrogates is that a written language on display will be recognised as that language by its speakers. Further, it argues that literacy, script, and other language policies impact on display policies and must work together; they do not in the Zhuang case. In making a case for language policy informed by ethnographic research, this article reviews the foundations of socially-situated analyses of Linguistic Landscapes. To galvanise further such research and articulate it to policy-makers, the article employs the term ‘lived landscape approach’.

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Pho as the embodiment of Vietnamese national identity in the linguistic landscape of a western Canadian city

Tran

2019

International Journal of Multilingualism

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7. Multilingual Audio Announcements: Power and Identity

Cited by 3 publications

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Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Perceptions of invisible Zhuang minority language in Linguistic Landscapes of the People’s Republic of China and implications for language policy

Pho as the embodiment of Vietnamese national identity in the linguistic landscape of a western Canadian city

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