Linguistic Landscapes
A Sociolinguistic Approach

Illustrated with a range of photographs, this book is the first full-length survey of the rapidly-developing field of linguistic landscapes.

Jeffrey L. Kallen (Author)

9781107177543, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 June 2023

378 pages
28 x 19 x 2.6 cm, 0.764 kg

'In this first, thorough textbook for a new, dynamic field, Kallen takes the reader on a superb journey across multilingual texts written in space.' Adam Jaworski, Emeritus Professor, University of Hong Kong

Visible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs, advertising billboards, street and place name signs, commercial logos and slogans, and visual arts. The field of linguistic landscapes draws on insights from sociolinguistics, language policy and semiotics to show how these public forms of language relate to multiple issues in language policy, language rights, language and education, language and culture, and globalization. Stretching from the earliest stone inscriptions, to posters and street signs, and to today's electronic media, linguistic landscapes sit at the crossroads of language, society, geography, and visual communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book-length synthesis of this exciting, rapidly-developing field. Using photographic evidence from across three continents, it demonstrates the methodology and approaches used, and summarises its findings and developments so far. It also seeks to answer common questions from its critics, and to suggest new directions for further study.

Preface
1. Approaching the linguistic landscape
2. Why Linguistic Landscape?
3. Doing things with codes
4. Space and landscape
5. People 6. The linguistic landscape as discourse
7. Time, space and the LL
8. Researching linguistic landscapes.

Subject Areas: Geography [RG], Sociology [JHB], Sociology & anthropology [JH], Sociolinguistics [CFB], Linguistics [CF]