Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes

Amiena Peck is Lecturer in the Linguistics Department, University of the Western Cape, South AfricaChristopher Stroud is Senior Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Multlingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South AfricaQuentin Williams is Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

The editors have accomplished something truly vital here. Marking an important, energizing step forwards in semiotic landscape studies, we have a volume which unapologetically centers people and the ways they live in/with place – feeling spaces, imagining spaces, embodying spaces, and inserting or asserting themselves into/over spaces. Teaming with new voices and new ideas, this collection will expand our ecologies and, quite literally, our horizons.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionAmiena Peck, Quentin Williams and Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)Part I: Living the Past in the Present1. 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 Johannesburg, Gilles Baro (Wits University, South Africa)4. Mobile semiosis and mutable metro spaces: Train graffiti in Stockholm’s public transport system, David Karlander (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Part II: Alternative Places, Alternative People5. Skinscapes with Frictions: an Analysis of Zef Hip Hop “Stoeka Style” Tattoos, Amiena Peck and Quentin Williams (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)6. The Linguistic Landscape creating a new sense of community: Guadeloupean Creole, the general strike of 2009, Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool, UK)7. Negotiating institutional identity on a Corsican university campus, Will Amos (University of Warwick, UK)8. The Semiotic Paradox of Gentrification: the commodification of place and linguistic fetishization of Bushwick’s graffscapes, Kellie Goncalves (University of Oslo, Norway)Part III: Imagining Futures, Imagining Selves9. The geopolitics of hate and hope in the linguistic landscape of a political crisis, Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)10. Of Monkeys, Shacks and Loos: Changing times, Changing Place, Sibonile Mpendukana (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)11. Micro-landscapes and the double semiotic horizon of mobility in the global South, Kasper Juffermans (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)12. Afterword, David Malinowski (Yale University, USA)Index