The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown

2016-05-12 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Jackie Jia Lou
Release : 2016-05-12
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown written by Jackie Jia Lou. This book was released on 2016-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors and analysis of community meetings and public policies, it provides an in-depth study of the production and consumption of linguistic landscape as a cultural text. Following a geosemiotic analysis of shop signs, it traces the multiple historical trajectories of discourse which shaped the bilingual landscape of the neighbourhood. Turning to the spatial contexts, it then compares and contrasts the situated meaning of the linguistic landscape for residents, community organisers and urban planners.

Linguistic Landscape in the City

2010-07-29 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Elana Shohamy
Release : 2010-07-29
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Linguistic Landscape in the City written by Elana Shohamy. This book was released on 2010-07-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications on linguistic landscape, but the editors aim to investigate the nature of a field of study which is characterised by its interest in ‘ordered disorder’. The editors aspire to delve into linguistic landscape beyond its appearance as a jungle of jumbled and irregular items by focusing on the variations in linguistic landscape configurations and recognising that it is but one more field of the shaping of social reality under diverse, uncoordinated and possibly incongruent structuration principles.

Languages on Display

2011 Chinatowns

Author : Kai Cheong Siu
Release : 2011
Genre : Chinatowns
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Download or read book Languages on Display written by Kai Cheong Siu. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the Linguistic Landscape of London Chinatown from a contextualised and spatialised perspective, highlighting that urban landscapes are not merely a physical space, but are instead constitutive in shaping the way people are connected to each other and ideologically charged. Drawing from Linguistic Landscape studies and Geosemiotics, this paper analyses how public signage interacts with other elements of the culturally super-diverse environment to construct a space which is both private and public. Taking a contextualised qualitative approach of Linguistic Landscape, this study aims to link micro-level analysis of individual monolingual and multilingual signs to the specific local socio-geographic processes of polycentricity and globalisation in London Chinatown. Such a qualitative approach to Linguistic Landscape, which emphasises the importance of socio-historical context, and which includes analysis of signage use, function, and history, leads to a greater understanding of the larger socio-political meanings of Linguistic Landscape.

Chinese Signs

2024-03-31 Foreign Language Study

Author : Zheng-sheng Zhang
Release : 2024-03-31
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Download or read book Chinese Signs written by Zheng-sheng Zhang. This book was released on 2024-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting stylistic and rhetorical characteristics, this book provides authentic snapshots of the linguistic landscape of China.

Chinatown in Singapore

2017 Chinatowns

Author : Hui Zhang
Release : 2017
Genre : Chinatowns
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Download or read book Chinatown in Singapore written by Hui Zhang. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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