Introduction: An Approach to an ‘Ordered Disorder’

Ben‐Rafael, Eliezer; Shohamy, Elana; Barni, Monica

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“…These workshops attract researchers who share an interest in contributing to the study of multilingualism in urban contexts. The workshops have resulted thus far in two edited books (Hélot, Barni, Janssens, & Bagna, 2012;Shohamy, Ben-Rafael, & Barni, 2010). Several articles appeared in widely dispersed journals, as well as in chapters of edited volumes.…”

Section: Current Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It helps to explain the linguistic landscape in terms of dominant and subordinate groups. Taken together, the linguistic landscape is seen under these principles as the symbolic construction of the public space (Ben-Rafael et al, 2006;Ben-Rafael, Shohamy, & Barni, 2010). Shohamy (2006) continued in this line of reasoning and referred to the linguistic landscape as a public arena where language battles are taking place and where the choice of languages can establish domination of space.…”

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Linguistic Landscapes in a Multilingual World

Gorter¹

2013

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

265

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This article offers an overview of the main developments in the field of linguistic landscape studies. A large number of research projects and publications indicate an increasing interest in applied linguistics in the use of written texts in urban spaces, especially in bilingual and multilingual settings. The article looks into some of the pioneer studies that helped open up this line of research and summarizes some of the studies that created the springboard for its rapid expansion in recent years. The focus is on current research (from 2007 onward), including studies that illustrate main theoretical approaches and methodological development as key issues of the expanding field, in particular when applied in settings of societal multilingualism.Publications on the linguistic landscape cover a wide range of innovative theoretical and empirical studies that deal with issues related to multilingualism, literacy, multimodality, language policy, linguistic diversity, and minority languages, among others. The article shows some examples of the use of the linguistic landscape as a research tool and a data source to address a number of issues in multilingualism. The article also explores some possible future directions. Overall, the various emerging perspectives in linguistic landscape research can deepen our understanding of languages in urban spaces, language users, and societal multilingualism in general. PANORAMA OF THE FIELDLanguage learning is the main product of the Rosetta Stone company. Its kiosks can be found in shopping malls and at airports across the United States, and its offices are all over the world. Through its display of the brand name, slogans, and advertisements, the company contributes to the construction of the linguistic landscape, similar to numerous companies, shops, government agencies, private associations, and individuals. The linguistic landscape refers to any display of visible written language. The signs are part of the textual decor that surrounds us every day, as we walk, ride, or drive through urban environments. One wonders, however, if passers-by are more than vaguely aware of the history of the Rosetta stone and its importance in the decipherment of hieroglyphs in 1822. The original text on the stone, now in the British Museum in London, is given in two languages and three scripts: Egyptian hieroglyphics on top, the 190

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Section: Current Researchmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Approachesmentioning

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Linguistic Landscapes in a Multilingual World

Gorter¹

2013

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

265

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“…This area of research has introduced a methodological shift in focus in sociolinguistic research: from sounds to (written) words, from speakers to (public) spaces. This methodological shift has been credited with success in analyzing linguistic patterns of social, cultural and political formations, competing linguistic ideologies and language attitudes, assessment of bilingual language policy, language change and language vitality/endangerment, and much more (Ben‐Rafael, Shohamy, & Barni, ; Coupland, ; Gorter, ; Landry & Bourhis, ; Scollon & Scollon, ). I begin by offering two examplars of LL, premised on the assumption that spaces are not neutral, they are semiotized –by signs that express a synchronized understanding of (several) layers of sociolinguistic activity.…”

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The poetics and politics of Englishes in late modernity

Bhatt

2019

World Englishes

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This paper argues that the 'liberation linguistics' perspective that Professor Kachru championed achieved two important aims: (i) it explored the creative manipulation of multilinguals' repertoire in the late-modern contexts of mobility and complexity; and (ii) it brought into focus the sociolinguistic inequalities engendered by a politics of conformity. Braj Kachru's teaching consistently highlighted the heterogeneity and multifunctionality of language, together with the meaning potential of variation, and his work continues to provide inspiration for the ongoing development of the field, and the 'gloriously impure' alchemy of English that he has bequeathed to us all.

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“…The field of Linguistic Landscapes (LL) explores displayed semiotic discourses of public spaces to reflect on the myriad social processes they reflect and propagate (Ben-Rafael, Shohamy and Barni, 2010;Jaworski and Thurlow, 2010;Scollon and Scollon, 2003). Central to the study of Linguistic Landscapes is consideration of displays as contextualizing entities participating in an active ordering of space, indicative of shifting ideological configurations, contestations and confluence (Pennycook, 2010;Shohamy and Gorter, 2008;Stroud and Mpendukana, 2009).…”

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Chronotopeography

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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Introduction: An Approach to an ‘Ordered Disorder’

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Linguistic Landscapes in a Multilingual World

Linguistic Landscapes in a Multilingual World

The poetics and politics of Englishes in late modernity

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