This article offers an overview of the main developments in the field of linguistic landscape
studies. A large number of research projects and publications indicate an increasing interest …

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding
space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield …

This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of
'metrolingualism', showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual …

Introducing Multilingualism is a comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic
field of multilingualism. Adopting a compelling social and critical approach and covering …

This book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci, and methodological techniques
of cultural geography make sense of the 'culture wars' that define our time. It is on the …

Since the advent and birth of the urban landscape as an academic discipline, various
attitudes have emerged in this field, and different disciplines and sciences have treated …

The field of sociolinguistics—broadly defined as the study of social aspects of language as
well as the interaction of language with sociocultural and political structures and …

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 …

语言景观研究关注公共空间中的语言呈现问题. 自上世纪末以来, 国际上的语言景观已发展成
社会语言学中一个热门的研究领域. 本文在已有基础上, 着重考察语言景观研究的认识论基础 …

Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety
of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the …