Language is on display all around us, all the time, and the study of this linguistic landscape
is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in applied linguistics. This book provides an …

This chapter discusses some issues related to the development of the study of linguistic
landscapes (LL), with a focus on methods and techniques of data collection and …

The initial brainstorming of this chapter is taking place between two writers in two locations,
a private house in Tel Aviv and the Fertile Grounds café in Berkeley to the playback of a cell …

Graffiti is a transgressive global art. An element of worldwide hip-hop culture, it is part of both
global transcultural flows and local subcultural practices of place. As the most visible …

The growing intrusion and use of English in the public spaces of the world's cities alongside
national languages and local languages has received increasing attention over the last …

Visible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs,
advertising billboards, street and place name signs, commercial logos and slogans, and …

In this article it is argued that the study of linguistic landscapes (public uses of written
language) can benefit from viewing them as dynamic phenomena and examining them in a …

This book provides a forum for theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to
research on language (s), multimodality and public space, which will advance new ways of …

This chapter focuses on individual cognitive and emotional responses to the linguistic
landscape (LL) in urban communities of Memphis, Tennessee. With a population of …

Abstract The Valencian Community is an area in Spain where Valencian, a variety of
Catalan, is the co-official language along with Spanish. Differently from other bilingual areas …