The Language of the English Street Sign

This book opens readers' eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets: what they look like, who and what they are for, how they link to English history and how they form part of life in multilingual England today.

About the author

Vivian Cook, who sadly passed away before his chapter in this volume appeared, was a British linguist who was Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University. He was renowned for his work on second language acquisition and second language teaching, and for writing successful textbooks and popular books about linguistics. He worked on a number of topics such as bilingualism, EFL (English as a foreign language), first language acquisition, second language teaching, linguistics, and the English writing system. He published more than 20 books and 100 papers across seven decades. He was founder and first President of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA), and co-founder of the Oxford University Press journal Writing Systems Research. He died on December 15, 2021, at the age of 81. Vivian will be profoundly missed by his colleagues and students.

 

Summary

This book opens readers’ eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets: what they look like, who and what they are for, how they link to English history and how they form part of life in multilingual England today.

Product details

• Authors: Vivian Cook, Cook Vivian
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781800414563
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-456-3
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 488 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Social and cultural history, Semiotics / semiology, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism