Reterritorializing Linguistic Landscapes

David Malinowski is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University, USA.Stefania Tufi is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart A: Questioning Boundaries, Opening SpacesSection I. Questioning Disciplinary and Methodological Boundaries1. What do People Notice from Real-World Linguistic Landscapes? A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Eye-Tracking Research, Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, Naomi Vingron & Debra Titone2. The Quality of Quantity, Kate Lyons3. Quantitative 2.0: Towards Variationist Linguistic Landscape Study (VaLLS) and a Standard Canon of LL Variables, Will Amos and Barbara Soukup4. ‘Mind the Gap’: Social Space in Linguistic Landscape Studies, Diarmait Mac Giolla ChríostSection II. The Spaces and Places of LL Research5. Online Linguistic Landscapes: Discourse, Globalization, and Enregisterment, Jeffrey L. Kallen, Esther Ní Dhonnacha and Karen Wade6. The Semiotics of Spatial Turbulence: Re/Deterritorialising Israel/Palestine at a South African University, Natalija Cerimaj, Tommaso M. Milani and E. Dimitris Kitis 7. Hong Kong’s Paper Cities: Heterotopia and the Semiotic Landscape of Civil Disobedience, Aaron Anfinson 8. From Graffiti to Street Art and Back: Connections between Past and Present, Sabrina Machetti and Claudio Pizzorusso 9. F/Anfield: Banners, Tweets and ‘Owning’ Football’s Linguistic Landscape, Frank Monaghan 10. Exploring the Mediation Styles of LL Sites by Tourist Guides, Shoshana Waksman and Elana Shohamy Part B: Reterritorializing Linguistic LandscapesSection III. Re-Writing, Re-Working, Re-Inventing Place11. The Semiotics of Heritage and Regeneration: Post-Apartheid Urban Development in Johannesburg, Gilles Baro 12. Blurred Lines: The Effect of Regional Borders on the LL in Northern Spain, Deirdre A. Dunlevy 13. Politically Open – Sociolinguistically Semi-Permeable: A Linguistic Landscape View into the Lithuanian-Polish Borderland, Gintare Kudžmaite and Kasper Juffermans14. The Language of Public Mourning – De- and Reterritorialization of Public Spaces as a Reaction to Terrorist Attacks, Rolf Kailuweit and Aldina Quintana 15. A Swimming Pool, an Abattoir, and a Biscuit Factory: Discursive Presentations of Adaptive Reuse for Museum Spaces in France, Robert Blackwood 16. A Diachronic Examination and Interpretation of the Street-Signage Transformation in Granada, Spain, during the Transition to Democracy (1975–1983), Yael Guilat and Antonio B. Espinosa-Ramírez Section IV.Experimenting Space17. A Methodological and Pedagogical Framework for Designing L2 Student-Based Linguistic Landscape Research, Hiram Maxim18. Linguistic Landscape as a Tool for Literacy-Based Language Teaching and Learning: Application for the Foreign Language Classroom, Olga Bever and Diane Richardson19. Parents Interpreting their Children’s Schoolscapes: Building an Insider’s Perspective, Tamás Péter Szabó and Robert A. TroyerIndex

Anyone interested in LL must attend to the inherent instability of the spaces they examine, the meanings they glean, the fragile connection between the two, and their own mutable relationship to all of the above. This volume is valuable precisely because it does not shy away from this necessity.