Semiotic Landscapes

Adam Jaworski is Professor in Language and Communication at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK. Crispin Thurlow is Associate Professor of Communication and adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, USA.

• Introduction, Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow; 1. Changing landscapes: New languages and old policies in the Dublin linguistic landscape, Jeffrey L. Kallen (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland); 2. Discourses in transit, Mark Sebba (Lancaster, UK); 3. The entextualisation of language ideologies: Welsh linguistic landscapes, Nikolas Coupland (Cardiff, UK); 4. (W)rites of passage: Nonstandard texts and signage in Jamaica, Susan Dray (Lancaster, UK); 5. 'A Latino community takes hold': Semiotic landscape and media discourse, Thomas D. Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); 6. Monumental identities: Semiotic legitimacy of Jewish illegal immigration in public space, Elana Shohamy and Shoshi Waksman (Tel Aviv University, Israel); 7. Contesting public space: Tourism and the transgressive art of graffiti, Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); 8. Silence is golden: Linguascaping and social exclusion in elite tourism representations, Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski (University of Washington, Cardiff University, UK); 9. Sexing multilingualism: The semiotics of the sex industry in Switzerland, Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University, Australia); 10. Physical spaces and virtual environments, Rodney H. Jones (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); 11. Faces of place: Facades and the city as spectacle, laboratory and text, Irina Gendelman and Giorgia Aiello (University of Washington, USA); 12. Semiosis takes place or radical uses of quaint theories, Ella Chmielewska (University of Edinburgh, Scotland); Index.

Semiotic landscapes is described on the dust jacket as an ‘‘exciting addition to the study of linguistic landscapes'' and does not fall short of this claim. In a range of different geographic settings, this volume expands the discussion in several refreshing ways, inviting others to respond to the challenges, issues and questions identified in this cutting-edge growth area of sociolinguistics.