Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape

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“…Shohamy (2006), in his book; Language Policy: Hidden Agendas and New Approaches, argued that the linguistic landscape could be considered a tool for achieving policy influence. Moreover, Rubdy and Ben Said (2015), in their book entitled: Conflict, Exclusion, and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape, presented the linguistic landscape's elements as signs for expressing official policy. If one accepts that the linguistic landscape in Cairo is a sign of elites policy influence and expressing official policy, one must identify the linguistic elements as such.…”

Section: The Symbolic Meaning Of the Cairene Linguistic Landscapementioning

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A City in Shame: The Cairene Linguistic Landscape and Cultural Distinction

Saad¹

2023

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Authoritarian placeless projects after 2017 introduced a significant shift in Cairo's linguistic landscape; giant streets and electronic billboards, banners, and signs co-shaped the city's global image. Promoting English and bilingualism (English-Arabic) created the study question. Why do advertisements address the Arabic-speaking population in English? This study aims at investigating the Cairene linguistic policy and its cultural meanings. The field study occurred between 2020 and 2022 in around twenty sites in Cairo, among which authoritarian placeless projects were significant. Exploring Cairene linguistic landscape in Cairo is based on former literature and observations while moving around in public spaces on foot and by car. Around 20 locations were visited, 120 photos were taken, and spontaneous interviews were conducted. The collected data were produced during two years (2020-2022) of fieldwork in Cairo. Describing and categorising the Cairene linguistic landscape identified its cultural values. Moreover, exploring historical changes in the 19 th and 20 th centuries explained the linguistic socio-cultural roots. The culture of shame bridges shifting from pride to profit in Cairo's linguistic landscape, presenting countless symbolic meanings, among which cultural distinction, linguistic centrality and marginality are significant.

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A City in Shame: The Cairene Linguistic Landscape and Cultural Distinction

Saad¹

2023

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Linguistic Landscape

Bender¹

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

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Linguistic landscape (LL) labels a highly fruitful interdisciplinary discourse on visible language and the ways in which written language articulates with the social and physical public landscapes in which it appears. Linguistic landscapes consist most obviously of publicly visible signs (street, commercial, informational, etc.) but the context has extended to other meaningful elements of public space, sometimes with the broader label of semiotic landscape. This work initially focused on diverse urban contexts, but it has since come to include rural and monolingual contexts as well. The focus on linguistic landscapes has facilitated the extension of many central topics in linguistic anthropology into public physical spaces. These topics include indexicality, voice, language ideology, linguistic hierarchy, language revitalization, entextualization, multimodality, linguistic geography, globalization, the materiality of language, semiotic mediation and mediatization, chronotopic phenomena, the cultural contingency of literacy, and the nature of participant structures and communities of practice.

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