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Zusatztext Linguistic Landscape scholars have demonstrated that they can energise and strengthen sociolinguistics. In this inspiring volume the authors analyse in various contexts the relationship between place and how people make sense of themselves and others. They discuss issues of identity! community and materiality in important ways. These innovative ideas will have an impact on theoretical and methodological approaches and will be a basis for exciting lines of research in future work on Linguistic Landscapes. Informationen zum Autor Amiena Peck is a linguistic lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and a research fellow at the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR). She is socioculturual linguistic semiotician working on extending an approach to linguistic landscape, particularly through an engagement with identity, bodies, space and the senses. Christopher Stroud is Senior Professor of Linguistics and Director for the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is also Professor of Transnational Multilingualism in the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at the Stockholm University, Sweden. Quentin Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and also a Research Fellow in the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) at the same university.Addresses the notion of emotion on the linguistic landscape, specifically that of hope and precarity, framed by leading sociolinguistics researchers. These are pressing linguistic and semiotic issues for a radical age. Zusammenfassung This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of ‘places’. It explores what it means to be in place , the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics of place. Drawing on examples of linguistic landscapes (LL) over the world, such as gentrified landscapes in Johannesburg and Brunswick, Mozambican memorializations, volatile train graffiti in Stockholm, Brazilian protest marches, Guadeloupian Creole signs, microscapes of souvenirs in Guinea-Bissau and old landscapes of apartheid in South Africa in contemporary time, this book explores how we are what we are through how we are emplaced. Across these examples, world-leading contributors explore how LLs contribute to the (re)imagining of different selves in the living past (living the past in the present), alternative presents and imagined futures. It focuses particularly on how the LL in all of these mediations is read through emotionality and affect, creating senses of belonging, precarity and hope across a simultaneous multiplicity of worlds. The volume offers a reframing of linguistics landscape research in a geohumanities framework emphasizing negotiations of self in place in LL studies, building upon a rich body of LL research. With over 40 illustrations, it covers various methodological and epistemological issues, such as the need for extended temporal engagement with landscapes, a mobile approach to landscapes and how bodies engage with texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction Amiena Peck, Quentin Williams and Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) Part I: Living the Past in the Present 1. Zombi landscapes: representations of apartheid in the discourses of young South Africans, Zannie Bock and Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 2. Orders of (In)visibility: Colonial and postcolonial chronotopes in linguistic landscapes of memorization in Maputo, Manuel Guissemo (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3. Chronoscape of Authenticity: consumption and aspiration in a middle-class market in...
