SIGNS: Uncovering the mechanisms by which messages in the linguistic landscape influence language/race ideologies and educational opportunities

Translanguaging and Linguistic Landscapes: A Study of Manitoban Schoolscapes

“…Moreover, Brown (2012) studied the linguistic landscape of three Võro-language elementary schools in Estonia in order to uncover the language ideologies that were symbolically present in the schoolscape. More recent studies have also looked at language ideologies and the hidden curriculum in schoolscapes but have employed a 'tourist guide technique' wherein teachers or principals are interviewed while the researcher takes pictures of the schoolscape (Amara, 2018;Biró, 2016;Przymus & Kohler, 2018;Szabó, 2015). These more recent studies generally analyze more than one school and tend to use both elementary and secondary schools as research sites.…”

“…Since translanguaging is used on the outdoor school sign, it sends the message that both languages are accepted at school, which in turn may influence translanguaging practices within the school. Moreover, using French on an outdoor sign may also be a way to promote the French immersion program in general since Przymus and Kohler (2018) discovered that…”

Community Versus Out‐of‐Hospital Birth: What's in a Name?

“…This argument is similar to those made by communities of color who have critiqued the use of nonwhite as a demographic category that elevates Euro‐Americans as the default race . Medical anthropologists have also compared the use of the term out‐of‐hospital to the tendency to call nonallopathic forms of healing complementary or alternative .…”

The Hidden Curriculum of Monolingualism: Understanding Metonymy to Interrogate Problematic Representations of Raciolinguistic Identities in Schoolscapes

“…Critique of linguistic landscape research has pointed to the difficulty in proving any convincing relationship between messages in our environment and human thought (Przymus & Kohler, 2018). "If we claim that it is through semiotic activity that physical space is turned into social, cultural and political space, we need to understand how exactly these processes of semiotization operate" (Blommaert, 2013, p. 14).…”