Semiotic Landscapes

ADAM JAWORSKI is Professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK. Crispin Thurlow is Associate Professor of Communication and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Semiotic landscapes is described on the dust jacket as an ''exciting addition to the study of linguistic landscapes'' and does not fall short of this claim. In a range of different geographic settings, this volume expands the discussion in several refreshing ways, inviting others to respond to the challenges, issues and questions identified in this cutting-edge growth area of sociolinguistics.

• Introducing semiotic landscapes Adam Jaworski (Cardiff University, UK) and Crispin Thurlow (University of Washington, USA) \ 1. Changing landscapes: Language, space, and policy in the Dublin linguistic landscape Jeffrey L. Kallen (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) \ 2. Discourses in transit Mark Sebba (Lancaster University, UK)  \ 3. Welsh linguistic landscapes 'from above' and 'from below' Nikolas Coupland (Cardiff University, UK) \ 4. Ideological struggles on signage in Jamaica Susan Dray (Lancaster University, UK) \ 5. Sex in the city: On making space and identity in travel spaces Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) \ 6. Spatial narrations: Graffscapes and city souls Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) \ 7. Cyberspace and physical space: Attention structures in Computer Mediated Communication Rodney H. Jones (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) \  8. "A Latino community takes hold": Reproducing semiotic landscapes in media discourse Thomas D. Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) \ 9. Silence is golden: The 'anti-communicational' linguascaping of super-elite mobility Crispin Thurlow (University of Washington, USA) and Adam Jaworski (Cardiff University, UK) \ 10. War monuments and the changing discourses of nation and soldiery, Gill Abousnnouga (University of Glamorgan, UK) and David Machin (University of Leicester, UK) \ 11. Building the nation, writing the past: History and textuality at the Haapala memorial in Tel Aviv-Jaffa Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Shoshi Waksman (Tel Aviv University, Israel) \ 12. Faces of places: Façades as global communication in Post-Eastern Bloc urban renewal Irina Gendelman (University of Washington, USA) and Giorgia Aiello (University of Washington, USA) \ 13. Semiosis takes place or radical uses of quaint theories Ella Chmielewska (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) \ Index