Semiotic Landscapes
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Semiotic Landscapes

Language, Image, Space

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Semiotic Landscapes

Language, Image, Space

About this book


Semiotic Landscapes is an exciting addition to the study of linguistic landscapes. It looks at how landscape generates meaning and combines three major areas of scholarly interest each concerned with central dimensions of contemporary life: language and visual discourse, spatial practices, and also the changes bought about by global capitalism and ever increasing mediatization. The editors look at: the textual/discursive construction of place; the use of space as a semiotic resource; the extent to which these processes are shaped by wider economic and political re-orderings of post-industrial or advanced capitalism; changing patterns of human mobility and transnational flows of ideas and images. The collection demonstrates the way written discourse interacts with all other discursive modalities: visual images, nonverbal communication, architecture and the built environment. From the red light districts of Switzerland to the transgressive public art of graffiti, all landscape can be seen to generate meaning. Semiotic Landscapes looks at how andwhy, and places this meaning generation in an interdisciplinary and thoroughly modern cross-section of global trends.

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Yes, you can access Semiotic Landscapes by Adam Jaworski, Crispin Thurlow in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistic Semantics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. List of Contributors
  4. Introducing Semiotic Landscapes
  5. 1. Changing Landscapes: Language, Space and Policy in the Dublin Linguistic Landscape
  6. 2. Discourses in Transit
  7. 3. Welsh Linguistic Landscapes ā€˜From Aboveā€™ and ā€˜From Belowā€™
  8. 4. Ideological Struggles on Signage in Jamaica
  9. 5. Sex in the City: On Making Space and Identity in Travel Spaces
  10. 6. Spatial Narrations: Graffscapes and City Souls
  11. 7. Cyberspace and Physical Space: Attention Structures in Computer Mediated Communication
  12. 8. ā€˜A Latino Community Takes Holdā€™: Reproducing Semiotic Landscapes in Media Discourse
  13. 9. Silence is Golden: The ā€˜Anti-communicationalā€™ Linguascaping of Super-elite Mobility
  14. 10. War Monuments and the Changing Discourses of Nation and Soldiery
  15. 11. Building the Nation, Writing the Past: History and Textuality at the Haā€™apala Memorial in Tel Aviv-Jaffa
  16. 12. Faces of Places: FaƧades as Global Communication in Post-Eastern Bloc Urban Renewal
  17. 13. Semiosis Takes Place or Radical Uses of Quaint Theories
  18. Index