Durk Gorter is head of the Social Sciences research group at the Fryske Akademy/Universiteit van Amsterdam and part-time professor of Frisian sociolinguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on the sociolinguistics of Frisian, minority languages in Europe, trilingual education and language policy.The articles are written by experts on sociolinguistics and applied linguistics who are all involved in the study of multilingualism in its social context.

• Contents1. Introduction: The Study of the Linguistic Landscape as a New Approach to Multilingualism – Durk Gorter (Fryske Akademy, Universiteit van Amsterdam)2. Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel - Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University), Muhammad Hasan Amara (Bar-Ilan University) and Nira Trumper-Hecht (Tel Aviv University)3. Bangkok’s Linguistic Landscapes: Environmental Print, Codemixing and Language Change - Thom Huebner (San José State University)4. Multilingualism in Tokyo: A Look into the Linguistic Landscape - Peter Backhaus (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)5. Linguistic Landscape and Minority Languages - Jasone Cenoz (University of Basque Country) and Durk Gorter (Fryske Akademy/Universiteit van Amsterdam)6. Further Possibilities for Linguistics Landscape Research - Durk Gorter

This book is a welcome and useful addition to the study of language and space, particularly for its contribution of well needed empirical studies. The articles show how rich empirical data on linguistic landscapes and on the use of language on signs can be. They constitute original steps towards conceptualising their varied features and developing a methodological basis, but they show how much more work in these directions needs still to be done.