Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes

Book Overview

This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places'. It explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics of place. Drawing on examples of linguistic landscapes (LL) over the world, such as gentrified landscapes in Johannesburg and Brunswick,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350037982
• ISBN13: 9781350037984
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"