Semiotic Landscapes Language, Image, Space

by Jaworski, Adam; Thurlow, Crispin

• ISBN13: 9781847061829
• ISBN10: 1847061826
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Landscapes generate meaning and impact on three major areas of scholarly interest: language and visual discourse, spatial practices and global capitalism.

Author Biography

Adam Jaworski is Professor in Language and Communication at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK. Crispin Thurlow is Associate Professor of Communication and adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introducing Semiotic Landscapes	p. 1
Changing Landscapes: Language, Space and Policy in the Dublin Linguistic Landscape	p. 41
Discourses in Transit	p. 59
Welsh Linguistic Landscapes 'From Above' and 'From Below'	p. 77
Ideological Struggles on Signage in Jamaica	p. 102
Sex in the City: On Making Space and Identity in Travel Spaces	p. 123
Spatial Narrations: Graffscapes and City Souls	p. 137
Cyberspace and Physical Space: Attention Structures in Computer Mediated Communication	p. 151
'A Latino Community Takes Hold': Reproducing Semiotic Landscapes in Media Discourse	p. 168
Silence is Golden: The 'Anti-communicational' Linguascaping of Super-elite Mobility	p. 187
War Monuments and the Changing Discourses of Nation and Soldiery	p. 219
Building the Nation, Writing the Past: History and Textuality at the Ha'apala Memorial in Tel Aviv-Jaffa	p. 241
Faces of Places: Facçdes as Global Communication in Post-Eastern Bloc Urban Renewal	p. 256
Semiosis Takes Places or Radical Uses of Quaint Theories	p. 274
Index	p. 292
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.