Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Tel-Aviv University. He has published and edited many books on Globalization, the Israeli society, identity and language, including Handbook of Israel: Major Debates (2 vols) (De Gruyter, 2016).Miriam Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1998), Tel-Aviv University, is Independent Researcher in sociolinguistics. She has published in the area of bilingualism and English penetration of French, including, with Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Sociologie et Sociolinguistique des Francophonies Israéliennes (Peter Lang, 2013).

• PrefaceList of Figures, Illustrations and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Investigating Multiple Globalizations1 Linguistic Landscapes2 World-cities and Globalization3 Multiculturalism4 The National Principle5 Research Questions and the Theoretical Argument6 In Search of Singularities2 Methodologies and Research Objectives1 The Research Settings2 Collecting and Analyzing Data3 Summing Up3 Berlin1 Introduction2 Globalization in Downtowns3 Galeries Lafayette4 A Residential Middle-Class Neighborhood5 A Turkish-Speaking Area6 A Mixed Turkish-Arab Area7 Where Arabic-Speakers Dominate8 Conclusion4 Paris1 Introduction2 The Champs Elysées3 Chinatown4 Jewish Sarcelles-Pletzel5 Islam at the Goutte d’Or6 Conclusion5 Brussels1 A Hub of Contradictions2 Downtown Brussels3 French-Speaking Neighborhoods4 Flemish Areas5 Arab Muslim Neighborhoods6 The sub-Saharan Quarter7 The Asian Quarter8 The Turkish Neighborhood9 The European Quarter10 Conclusion6 London1 Introduction2 Central London’s LL3 Golders Green4 Chinatown in Soho5 London’s Little India6 Conclusion7 Tel Aviv-Jaffa1 Introduction2 Downtowns3 Ramat Hasharon4 Bnei Brak5 Old Rosh Ha’Ayin6 Ajami7 The Central Bus Station8 Conclusion8 Downtowns Around the World1 Introduction2 Tokyo-Yokohama 3 New Delhi4 Addis Ababa 5 Three cases – not too far away9 An LL Paradigm for Multiple Globalizations1 The Sociological Perspective2 Configurations in Downtowns3 Residential Areas4 Ethno-cultural Quarters5 Empirical Conclusions: Answering the Research Questions10 Emblems of Singularities1 Introduction2 The Wall of Berlin: The East Gallery3 Paris under-the-ground4 Brussels’ Comic Strip Murals5 London’s Double-Decker Buses6 Tel Aviv: the Florentin neighborhood7 Conclusion11 General Conclusions1 A sociology of Linguistic Landscape2 From Modernity to Multiple Modernities3 Globalization Instead of Modernity? 4 Multiculturalism and Transnational Diasporas 5 The Pertinence of the Nation 6 Multiple GlobalizationsAppendix 1: Indexes of Globalization Appendix 2: Major Areas of Destination for Contemporary Migration Flows Appendix 3: Number of Civil Servants per Population (Selected European Countries) Bibliography Index

",,, the book is valuable for providing an overarching framework of societal influences upon the LL of world-cities. Scholars will also benefit immensely from the authors' summaries of a wealth of sociological theory bearing upon modernity, globalisation, multiculturalism and transnational diasporas, and nationhood." - Robert A. Troyer, Western Oregon University, in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development“This volume is undoubtedly a very solid contribution to the rather new field of LL (Linguistic Landscapes): on the one hand because of its sound grounding in sociological theory on globalization and multiculturalism, and on the other, for the promising theoretical model Ben-Rafael and Ben-Rafael have elaborated of a LL paradigm for multiple globalizations.” - Christine Hélot, University of Strasbourg, in: Linguistic Landscape 6/1 (2020)