Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes (Hardcover)

Amiena Peck

ISBN 10: 1350037982 / ISBN 13: 9781350037984

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2018

Hardcover. 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, Mozambican memorializations, volatile train graffiti in Stockholm, Brazilian protest marches, Guadeloupian Creole signs, microscapes of souvenirs in Guinea-Bissau and old landscapes of apartheid in South Africa in contemporary time, this book explores how we are what we are through how we are emplaced. Across these examples, world-leading contributors explore how LLs contribute to the (re)imagining of different selves in the living past (living the past in the present), alternative presents and imagined futures. It focuses particularly on how the LL in all of these mediations is read through emotionality and affect, creating senses of belonging, precarity and hope across a simultaneous multiplicity of worlds. The volume offers a reframing of linguistics landscape research in a geohumanities framework emphasizing negotiations of self in place in LL studies, building upon a rich body of LL research. With over 40 illustrations, it covers various methodological and epistemological issues, such as the need for extended temporal engagement with landscapes, a mobile approach to landscapes and how bodies engage with texts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781350037984

Synopsis:

Linguistic landscape research has emerged as the core component of a wider geohumanities. It focusses on the sense that people make of place and how concepts of place help to make sense of the notion of 'people'. This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places' and how this is semiotically mediated through materialities of affect and sensuality. The volume explores a gamut of linguistic landscapes (LLs) across the world from South Africa to Guadeloupe in the material semiotics of desire, learning, innovation and aspiration. It looks at signage structured around body/transgressions, slum towns and migration troubles. The authors explore how LLs contribute to the (re)imagining of different selves in (a) the living past (living the past in the present), (b) alternative presents (manufactured alternative selves) and (c) imagined futures. It focuses particularly on how the LL in all of these mediations is read through emotionality and affect, creating senses of belonging, precarity and hope across a simultaneous multiplicity of worlds. The volume offers an emerging framework with which to explore how emotions, place and bodies mediate the 'self' in LL studies, building upon the rich body of LL research. It covers various methodological and epistemological issues, such as the need for extended temporal engagement with landscapes, a mobile approach to landscapes and how bodies engage with texts (corporeality).

About the Author: Amiena Peck is a Lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa Christopher Stroud is Senior Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa Quentin Williams is a Lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Bibliographic Details

Title: Making Sense of People and Place in ...
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new