Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes

Robert Blackwood is Reader in French Sociolinguistics at University of Liverpool, UKElizabeth Lanza is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oslo and Director of the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing)Hirut Woldemariam is Associate Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

• PART I: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE LL1. Turbulent linguistic landscapes and the semiotics of citizenship, Christopher Stroud2. Street art as commercial discourse: commercialisation and a new typology of signs in the cityscapes of Chisinau and Minsk, Sebastian Muth3. The Italian language in the Tanzanian LL: Between the Italian way of life and mass tourism, Francesca GallinaPART II: PROTEST AND CONTESTATION OF IDENTITIES IN THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE4. 1 March – ‘A day without immigrants’: The urban linguistic landscape and the immigrants’ protest, Monica Barni and Carla Bagna5. The discourse of protest: Frames of identity, intertextuality, and interdiscursivity, Selim Ben Said and Kasanga A. Luanga6. Linguistic Landscape of social protests: Moving from ‘open’ to ‘institutional’ spaces, Shoshi Waksman and Elana ShohamyPART III: NEGOTIATING REGIONAL AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES7. Constructing the self in contested spaces: The case of Slovenian-speaking minorities in the area of Trieste, Stefania Tufi8. Absence from the linguistic landscape as de facto language policy: The case of two local languages in Southern Ethiopia, Binyam Sisay Mendisu, David Malinowski, and Endashaw Woldemichael 9. Harari linguistic identity in the LL: creation, legitimization, and omission in the city of Harar, Ethiopia, Moges’ Yigezu and Robert BlackwoodPART IV: NEGOTIATING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES10. Expanding the linguistic landscape scenery? Action theory and ‘Linguistic Soundscaping’, Ruth Pappenhagen, Claudio Scarvaglieri and Angelika Redder 11. Redefining the public space as a semiotic resource through Institutional Art events: the Bat Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism as a LL case study, Yael Guilat12. Semiotic and Linguistic analysis of banners in three European countries’ football stadia: Italy, France and England, Raymond SiebetcheuPART V: IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS FROM A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE13. Berlin’s Linguistic Landscapes: Two Faces of Globalization, Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-Rafael14. A comparative study of Linguistic Landscapes in middle schools in Korea and Texas: Contrasting signs of learning and identity construction, Rebecca Todd Garvin and Kristina Eisenhower15. The visualisation of multilingualism and voice in spaces of consumption: Linguistic landscaping in a South African urban space, Quentin E. Williams and Elizabeth LanzaIndex

While public political discourse aims to wipe out otherness, the linguistic landscape in all its forms reveals the presence of others and it is exactly this dialectic that this book so nicely captures.