Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space

Introducing semiotic landscapes, Adam Jaworsld and Crispin Thurlow (University of Washington, USA and Cardiff University, UK); 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 and Adam Jaworski (University of Washington, USA and Cardiff University, UK); 10. War monuments and the changing discourses of nation and soldiery, Gill Abousnnouga and David Machin (University of Glamorgan and University of Leicester, UK); 11. Building the nation, writing the past: History and textuality at the Haapala memorial in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Elana Shohamy and Shoshi Waksman (Tel Aviv University, Israel); 12. Faces of places: Facades as global communication in Post-Eastern Bloc urban renewal, Irina Gendelman and Giorgia Aiello (University of Washington, USA); 13. Semiosis takes place or radical uses of quaint theories, Ella Chmielewska (University of Edinburgh, Scotland); Index.

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

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. -Language Policy