Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region Colonization, Indigenous Identities, and Critical Discourse Theory

In Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region, Diane Elizabeth Johnson explores the use of language in public spaces in four areas of the Pacific in which colonization has played a major role: Hawai‘i, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Tahiti. She does so in a way that is both scholarly and accessible.

About the author

Diane Elizabeth Johnson was lecturer at The University of Waikato.

Summary

In Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region, Diane Elizabeth Johnson explores the use of language in public spaces in four areas of the Pacific in which colonization has played a major role: Hawai'i, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Tahiti. She does so in a way that is both scholarly and accessible.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Elizabeth Johnson, Johnson Diane Elizabeth
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.07.2021
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures
• EAN: 9781793611185
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-118-5
• Pages: 162
• Subjects: Hawaii, Tahiti, History, Media Studies, Sociology, Law, Political Science, Resistance, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Identity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Pacific, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Aotearoa, Indigenous Peoples, Colonization, languages, Indigenous Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Australasian & Pacific history, New Zealand, Linguistic Anthropology, Australasian and Pacific history, Oceania, New Zealand / Aotearoa, Hawaii / Hawaiʻi (State of), New Caledonia, indigenous languages, linguistic landscape, critical discourse theory, Hawai‘i, Pacific colonization, Western colonization