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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Pacific Region: Colonization, Resistance, and the Linguistic Landscape Introduction to Part I - Britain and the US: Colonialism and expansionism
Chapter 2: The Hawaiian Kingdom Mount Maunakea: Assertion, Resistance, and the Mise en Abyme Effect
Chapter 3: Aotearoa/ New Zealand Tirau: A Twenty-first Century Colonial Fantasy Landscape
Introduction to Part II - Metropolitan France: Pacific colonial expansionism
Chapter 4: Assertion and Resistance in the Linguistic Landscape of Kanaky/New Caledonia
Chapter 5: Pape'ete: A City at Sea
Conclusion: Signs of the Times
References
About the Author

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
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2023
• EAN: 9781793611208
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-120-8
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasia, Australasian and Pacific history, Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa