Discourses in Place

Ron Scollon is Professor of lInguistics at Georgetown University, USA, and Editor of Visual Communication. Suzie Wong Scollon, is Research Coordinator, Associated Sociocultural Research Projects, Georgetown University, USA. Includes examples from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

'This is an important and highly original book which is likely to initiate a whole new approach to teaching and researching language in social life.' – BAAL Book Prize Panel'Discourses in Place is a pioneering study that establishes the field of geosemiotics.' – Linguist List'This is a useful book for the study of semiotics, human geography and cultural anthropology ... Written in a reader-friendly style, gurus, undergraduates and laypeople will find it accessible and informative.' – Discourse Studies

• 1: Geosemiotics 2: Indexicality 3: The Interaction Order 4: Visual Semiotics 5: Interlude on Geosemiotics 6: Place Semiotics: Code Preference 7: Place Semiotics: Inscription 8: Place Semiotics: Emplacement 9: Place Semiotics: Discourse in Time and Space 10: Indexicality, Dialogicality, and Selection in Action Glossary References