Linguistic Landscape in the City

Elana Shohamy is a professor and chair of the language education program at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, where she teaches, researches and writes about multiple issues relating to multilingualism: language policy, language testing and language in the public space.Eliezer Ben-Rafael, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and held the Weinberg Chair of Political sociology, at Tel-Aviv University. He is Past President of the International Institute of Sociology. He has published in the area of transnationalism, the comparative study of modernities, identity and culture.Monica Barni is an associate professor in Educational Linguistics at the Università per Stranieri, Siena. Her research focuses on language policy in education, specifically in relation to immigrants, and in plurilingual societies. She has published on the impact of national and European language policies and about plurilingualism and linguistic contact in Italy.

Linguistic Landscaping has added a new and fascinating dimension to the mapping of multilingualism and linguistic diversity in urban spaces, outside the private domain of the home. The editors have contributed in significant ways to the foundation of this emerging field of sociolinguistic research. In this inspiring volume, they offer a widened array of multidisciplinary perspectives on the multitude of verbal signs which catch the eye in urban areas across the world.

• Introduction by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Elana Shohamy and Monica BarniPart I: LL Multilingualisms1. Monica Barni and Carla Bagna: Linguistic Landscapes and Language Vitality2. Jeffrey L. Kallen and Esther Ní Dhonnacha: Language and Inter-language in Urban Irish and Japanese Linguistic Landscapes3. Yael Guilat: “The Holy Ark in the Street”: Sacred and Secular Painting of Utility Boxes in the Public Domain in a Small Israeli TownPart II: Top-down, Power and Reactions4. Shoshi Waksman and Elana Shohamy: Decorating the City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa for its Centennial: Complementary Narratives via Linguistic Landscape5. Theo du Plessis: Bloemfontein/Mangaung, ‘City on the Move’: Language Management and Transformation of a Non-representative Linguistic Landscape6. Jia Jackie Lou: Chinese on the Side: The Marginalization of Chinese on the Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC7. Heiko Marten: LL under Strict State Language Policy: Reversing the Soviet Legacy in a Regional Centre in Latvia8. Aneta Pavlenko: Linguistic Landscape of Kyiv , Ukraine: A Diachronic StudyPart III: Benefits of LL9. Adam Jaworski and Simone Yeung: Life in the Garden of Eden: Naming in Hong Kong10. Jennifer Leeman and Gabriella Modan: Selling the City: Language, Ethnicity and Commodified Space11. David Malinowski: Showing Seeing in the Korean Linguistic CityscapePart IV: Perceptions of Passers-by12. Jokin Aiestaran, Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter: Multilingual Cityscapes: Perceptions and Preferences of the Inhabitants of the City of Donostia-SanSebastián13. Nira Trumper-Hecht: LL in Mixed Cities in Israel from the Perspective of 'Walkers': The Case of Arabic14. Rebecca Garvin: Responses to the Linguistic Landscape in Memphis, Tennessee: An Urban Space in TransitionPart V: Multiculturalism in LL15. François Bogatto and Christine Helot: Linguistic Landscape and Language Diversity in Strasbourg: The « Quartier Gare »16. Robert Blackwood: Marking France's Public Space: Empirical Surveys on Regional Heritage Languages in Provincial Cities17. Gerda de Klerk and Terrence G. Wiley: Linguistic Landscape as Multi-layered Representation: Suburban Asian Communities in the Valley of the Sun18. Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-Rafael: Diaspora and Returning Diaspora: French-Hebrew and Vice-versa