Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia

Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries.

Autorentext

Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (Multiling), University of Oslo, Norway. Prior to taking up his fellowship at Multiling, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His recent publications include articles in Language in Society, Current Issues in Language Planning, International Journal of Multilingualism, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and Linguistic Landscape.

Inhalt

Introduction Section One: Globalization and Population Mobility 1. Language Ideology in the Linguistic Landscape of Hanoi 2. Multilingual Cityscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space in Taiwan: A Study of Two Urban Settings Section Two: Minority Languages 3. Constructing a visual multilingual reality in Singapore's schools 4. Accommodating Chinese Community Languages in Penang: Evidence from the Linguistic Landscape and Local Voices 5. Landscape and the struggle for survival: The Case of Cavite Chabacano Section Three: Constructing, Negotiating and Contesting identities 6. Understanding the identities of Hong Kong people through transgressive signs **7. Semiotic practices, power and identity: Linguistic landscape at the airport in Shanghai 8. "Keep Original": Translanguaging and Identity Construction Among East Javanese Football Supporters 9.Conclusion