Description
An essential resource for understanding linguistic landscapes and their role in multilingual contexts worldwide
The Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism provides an in-depth exploration of linguistic landscapes as a tool to understand multilingualism across diverse global contexts. Edited by leading scholars Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, this authoritative volume brings together pioneering research on the evolving interactions between language, place, space, and society.
Addressing both theory and practice, this handbook serves as a unique lens into how linguistic landscapes reflect broader social, political, and educational dynamics. In-depth chapters address topics ranging from translanguaging and minority language ideologies to the application of linguistic landscapes in multilingual cities and classrooms. Organised into three parts, the book first establishes the theoretical and methodological foundations of linguistic landscape studies, followed by detailed case studies of the relationship between linguistic landscapes and multilingualism in diverse social and geographic contexts. The concluding section focusses on the educational implications of linguistic landscapes, examining how schoolscapes and public spaces can be utilised for language learning and teaching. Equipping readers to critically engage with multilingual practices in urban spaces, educational settings, and beyond, the Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism:
- Introduces cutting-edge methodologies, socio-political contexts, and language learning through linguistic landscapes
- Covers emerging topics such as transgressive practices, landscapes of affect, and linguistic landscapes of protest and conflict
- Describes key theoretical concepts and identifies the interdisciplinary connections between ethnography, sociolinguistics, and discourse studies
- Explores innovative pedagogical approaches, and translanguaging practices, with an emphasis on empowering learners in multilingual environments
Designed to fit seamlessly into curricula focused on multilingualism and language policy across a range of academic disciplines, the Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism is ideal for graduate students, post-graduate researchers, and scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, education sciences, language studies, and social geography.
Table of Contents
01. Introduction: the study of Linguistic Landscapes and multilingualism
Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz
PART 1 FRAMING THE FIELD
02. Emergence of the field
Mieke Vandenbroucke
03. Theorizing space
Stefania Tufi
04. Linguistic Landscapes at the Nexus of Ethnography, Sociolinguistics, and Discourse
Roswita Dressler and Francis M. Hult
05. Research Methodologies
Isabelle Buchstaller and Seraphim Alvanides
06. Translanguaging and Semiotic Resources
Jerry Won Lee
07. Attitudes in the Multilingual Linguistic Landscape
Monika Dannerer and Barbara Soukup
08. Landscapes of affect
Lionel Wee
09. Multilingualism and Linguistic Landscapes of protest and conflict
Cristiana Themistocleous
10. Exploring beyond convention: transgressive practice in Linguistic Landscapes
Antonio Bruyèl-Olmedo
11. Churchscape
Alastair Walker
12. Names, naming, and multilingualism in the Linguistic Landscape
Väino Syrjälä
13. Minority languages and language ideologies
Luk Van Mensel
14. The Linguistic Landscapes of Chinese Diasporic Trajectories
Thom Huebner and Kittinata Rhekhalilit
PART 2 MULTILINGUAL CONTEXTS
15. Multilingualism and global English in the Linguistic Landscape: View from Montreal, Singapore, and Dubai
Jakob R. E. Leimgruber
16. Reflections on multilingualism in the Linguistic Landscape in the context of Jordan
Omar Alomoush and Karl Simms
17. Linguistic Landscapes in Israel: Policy, research, practice
Elana Shohamy and Iair G. Or
18. Elite bilingualism in the Linguistic Landscape of Quetta, Pakistan
Syed Abdul Manan
19. Discourses Challenging Multilingualism-inclusive-of-Indigenous/ Tribal/ Minority (ITM) through Languages in the Linguistic Landscape of Dantewada, India
Uma Maheshwari Chimirala and Pallavi Gauri Dehari
20. Researching Hong Kong´s multilingual landscape
John Bacon-Shone, Kingsley Bolton and Siu-lun Lee
21. Exploring Linguistic Hybridity and Creativity in the Advertising Linguistic Landscapes of Taiwan and Tunisia
Selim Ben-Said
22. Transforming the Linguistic Landscape of South Africa - more of the same?
Theodorus du Plessis and Chrismi-Rinda Loth
23. Linguistic Landscape Studies as a Reflection of Multilingualism in the United States
Robert A. Troyer
24. The Linguistic Landscape of Indigenous Peoples from Latin America: a Multimodal Overview
Lorena Córdova-Hernández and Miryam Yataco
25. Multilingualism and migrants: the case of Latin American Linguistic Landscape in Italy
Maria Vittoria Calvi
26. Language conflicts in the Linguistic Landscapes of post-communist countries in Europe
Solvita Burr, Jelena Bo?ović and Marián Sloboda
27. Multilingualism in borderlands: hegemony and minoritised languages in European borderscapes
Deirdre A. Dunlevy
28. Multilingualism in the France´s Linguistic Landscape
Robert Blackwood
PART 3 EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING
29. Language learning in linguistic landscape: Towards a sustainable and socially responsible language education
Edina Krompák
30. Linguistic Landscape for (foreign) language learning
Monica Barni
31. Schoolscapes: a Linguistic Landscape approach to learning environments
Tamás Péter Szabó and Kara D. Brown
32. Developing Educational Linguistic Landscape Materials and Learning Methods
Steve D. Przymus and Osman Solmaz
33. Empowerment and Translanguaging in Pacific Linguistic Landscapes
Corinne A. Seals, Vincent Ieni Olsen-Reeder, Lei Xia, and Shanara Wallace
34. “Spotting Languages”: Searching for Regional or International Languages for Symbolic, Practical, and Educational Purposes
Sanita Martena and Heiko F. Marten
35. Ephemeral, mobile, and multilingual signs in public space: a pedagogic case study of stickers
Kellie Gonçalves, Federico Erba, Forugh Semadeni, and Hüseyin Demircan
