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Titolo: |
Semiotic landscapes : language, image, space / / edited by Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow
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Pubblicazione: | London, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina: | 302.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Semiotics |
Sociolinguistics | |
Altri autori: |
JaworskiAdam <1957->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introducing Semiotic Landscapes; 1. Changing Landscapes: Language, Space and Policy in the Dublin Linguistic Landscape; 2. Discourses in Transit; 3. Welsh Linguistic Landscapes 'From Above' and 'From Below'; 4. Ideological Struggles on Signage in Jamaica; 5. Sex in the City: On Making Space and Identity in Travel Spaces; 6. Spatial Narrations: Graffscapes and City Souls; 7. Cyberspace and Physical Space: Attention Structures in Computer Mediated Communication |
8. 'A Latino Community Takes Hold': Reproducing Semiotic Landscapes in Media Discourse9. Silence is Golden: The 'Anti-communicational' Linguascaping of Super-elite Mobility; 10. War Monuments and the Changing Discourses of Nation and Soldiery; 11. Building the Nation, Writing the Past: History and Textuality at the Ha'apala Memorial in Tel Aviv-Jaffa; 12. Faces of Places: Façades as Global Communication in Post-Eastern Bloc Urban Renewal; 13. Semiosis Takes Place or Radical Uses of Quaint Theories; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Semiotic landscapes ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-55200-7 |
9786612552007 | |
1-4411-4572-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910821333503321 |
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