Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Durk Gorter is Ikerbasque research professor in the Department of Education Sciences at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain. He conducts research on multilingual education, European minority languages and linguistic landscapes; topics on which he has published widely.Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Research Methods in Education at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain, and a member of the advisory committee of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI). Her research focuses on multilingual education, bilingualism and multilingualism. She has published extensively and has presented her work at numerous international conferences and seminars.

• FiguresPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: Captivating Studies of Language in Public SpacesChapter 2. History: Early Stages of an Emerging FieldChapter 3. Theoretical Approaches: A Range of PerspectivesChapter 4. Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative ApproachesChapter 5. Photography and Other Distinctive Research MethodsChapter 6. Multilingualism is All Around UsChapter 7. The Visibility of Minority LanguagesChapter 8. The Influence of Language PoliciesChapter 9. English Can Be Seen EverywhereChapter 10. Educational ContextsChapter 11. What's in the Names?Chapter 12. Expanding the Field of ViewReferencesIndex

This much-needed book explores past and present trends in the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies. The reader enters the archaeology of the field and then ventures back into the future. On the way, there is room to get to know the controversies, the dilemmas, the emerging themes, and the secret life of which the emergence and evolution of a research field is made. A book that reads like a novel.