Signs of resistance in the Asturian linguistic landscape

Sebastián, Paul

doi:10.1075/ll.18015.seb

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“…Jimaima and Banda (2020) combined the insights of Stroud and Mpendukana (2009) with those of Aronin and O'Laoire (2012) in their investigation of materiality in the linguistic landscape in Livingstone Town (Zambia). Similarly, Sebastián (2019) focused on the actual materiality of the signs in his analysis of the linguistic landscape of Asturias in Spain, and he mentions font, material and layering as characteristics, and if the signs were sturdy, durable or fixed.…”

Section: Box 62 Multimodality and Materialitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Gorter¹,

Cenoz²

2023

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Section: Box 62 Multimodality and Materialitymentioning

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A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Gorter¹,

Cenoz²

2023

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“…Three other minority languages, despite being regionally protected by law, still do not enjoy official status: Aragonese (Aragón 2013), Asturian (Principado de Asturias 1998) and Leonese (Spain 2013). 2 Scholarly research has confirmed the scarcity of Asturian in signage and the militant struggle for its introduction (Sebastian 2019) or the vindicatory presence of Aragonese in the LL (Félez 2017). In addition to these, a growing body of research addresses the role of immigrant languages as new constituents of the Spanish LL.…”

Section: Languages In the Spanish Llmentioning

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Linguistic Transgression in Society as Seen Through Spanish Linguistic Landscapes

Bruyèl-Olmedo¹,

Juan-Garau²

2022

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The term “transgression” is traditionally associated with the infringement of what is prescribed. However, a closer look at its nature suggests that it is an integral part of the norm, as well as a starting point for innovation, in this case linguistic. The study focuses on the linguistic landscape (LL) of Spain, where five official languages share regional official status with Castilian Spanish. Further, these languages coexist in the LL with immigrant ones and English as an international language. In this environment, the article explores how linguistic transgression is reflected in the LL and what motivations underlie such non-normative uses. Given the spatial and grammatical limitations of the texts in the LL, the study focuses on aspects of code preference and orthography. To this end, we work on photographs taken in different Spanish regions which reflect the range of transgressive linguistic practices present in the public space. The evidence gathered allows us to suggest the grouping of these techniques under the categories of code (or variant) choice/elimination, exoticisation, re-representation and re-signification. The subsequent analysis presents linguistic transgression in LL as a voluntary, motivated and intentional social act that reflects identity, socio-cultural, but also commercial motivations. These motivations lead street-text authors to force the linguistic norm in their texts in order to claim their identity, show their solidarity with ideologies, resist linguistic policies or seek identification with their audience’s sensitivities for trade purposes.

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“…and places pierced by histories of violence (Waksman & Shohamy, 2016;Lou & Jaworski, 2016;Seals, 2017;Martín Rojo, 2014a, 2014b. The potential of semiotic resources to disrupt the power of state authorities (Raish, 2019), to problematise the production of inequalities, invisibilities, and exclusion, and to promote social justice has been interrogated in a number of recent studies (Taylor-Leech, 2020;Sebastian, 2019;Moriarty, 2019). Transient linguistic landscapes (henceforth LL) accommodating inscribed violence (Bilkic, 2018), but also harbouring and shaping collective identities of violent protests (Kitis & Milani, 2015), have been discussed as arenas of contestation, exclusion, and dissent (Rubdy & Ben Said, 2015).…”

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Manoeuvres of dissent in landscapes of annexation

Volvach

2022

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Building on semiotic landscapes research, the present paper seeks to expand the existing field with its exploration of protest through the lens of turbulence (Stroud, 2015a). While making visible the fabric of resistance in semiotic landscapes of annexed Crimea, the ethnographic engagement with the interactional and visual data provides insights into small-scale performative acts of protest. It shows that protest evolves as a manoeuvring act across a minefield of possibilities and constraints and manifests itself materially and discursively. More specifically, acts of protest emerge out of an agential intra-action of humans and non-humans, thus revealing the necessity of synergies between people and objects. Such intra-actions create interpretative ambiguity. Protestors deliberately play on this ambiguity to simultaneously conceal and to visibilise dissent. Jointly achieved performative acts of protest, if only temporary, create turbulence and unsettle the status of Crimea as a ‘Russian’ space, thus disturbing the status quo in the area.

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Signs of resistance in the Asturian linguistic landscape

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Linguistic Transgression in Society as Seen Through Spanish Linguistic Landscapes

Manoeuvres of dissent in landscapes of annexation

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