Robert Blackwood - Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes

Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes

Advances in Sociolinguistics Series

Series Editor: Tommaso M. Milani, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Since the emergence of sociolinguistics as a new field of enquiry in the late 1960s, research into the relationship between language and society has advanced almost beyond recognition. In particular, the past decade has witnessed the considerable influence of theories drawn from outside of sociolinguistics itself. Thus rather than see language as a mere reflection of society, recent work has been increasingly inspired by ideas drawn from social, cultural and political theory that have emphasized the constitutive role played by language/discourse in all areas of social life. The Advances in Sociolinguistics series seeks to provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with the role of language in society.

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Contents

Christopher Stroud

Sebastian Muth

Francesca Gallina

Monica Barni and Carla Bagna

Selim Ben Said and Luanga A. Kasanga

Shoshi Waksman and Elana Shohamy

Stefania Tufi

Binyam Sisay Mendisu, David Malinowski and Endashaw Woldemichael

Moges Yigezu and Robert Blackwood

Ruth Pappenhagen, Claudio Scarvaglieri and Angelika Redder

Yael Guilat

Raymond Siebetcheu

Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-Rafael

Rebecca Todd Garvin and Kristina Eisenhower

Quentin E. Williams and Elizabeth Lanza

Carla Bagna is an Associate Professor in Educational Linguistics at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. She carries out research on language teaching, in particular Italian as a foreign language, immigrant languages in Italy, linguistic landscape, language testing and assessment. She directs the Language Centre of the University for Foreigners of Siena.

Monica Barni is a full Professor in Educational Linguistics at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. She carries out research on language testing and teaching, immigrant languages in Italy, linguistic landscape, semiotics and language policy. She is an associate editor of the journal Linguistic Landscape.

Eliezer Ben-Rafael is Professor Emeritus (Tel Aviv University). He does research on ethnicity and sociology of languages. He received the Landau Prize in Sociology and was president of the International Institute of Sociology. He published, among other works, Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel, (CUP, 1991), Language, Identity and Social Division (OUP, 1994), and edited Religions and Multiculturalism (Brill, 2010) and Linguistic Landscape in the City (Multilingual Matters, 2010). He is the co-editor of the journal Linguistic Landscape.

Miriam Ben-Rafael, PhD, is an independent researcher. She did research in the field of sociolinguistics and focused more particularly on changes in the French language spoken by Israelis of French-speaking origin, as well as on the acquisition of French by native Hebrew-speakers. Her work and publications are on Franbreu, the French-Hebrew interlanguage, and on the linguistic landscape in metropolitan settings Berlin, Brussels, Tel-Aviv, Paris, London, Tokyo, New Delhi and Addis Ababa.

Selim Ben Said is an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include linguistic landscape, narrative research and identity and the sociology of language and religion. His most recent co-edited book Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape (Palgrave, 2015) utilizes a range of interpretive frameworks and interdisciplinary approaches to expand the boundaries of linguistic landscape research, focusing particularly on phenomena of conflict, exclusion and dissent.

Robert Blackwood is Reader in French Sociolinguistics at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, and is an associate editor of the journal Linguistic Landscape. He is co-author with Stefania Tufi of The Linguistic Landscape of the Mediterranean: French & Italian Coastal Cities (2015). Blackwood has published widely in English and French on questions surrounding the linguistic landscape, as well as language policy, with a specific focus on Corsica.

Kristina Eisenhower is an Assistant Professor of English at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. She has published research on attitudes toward accented English, and integrating technology for English language learners in mainstream classrooms. Her current research interests include the fashion of linguistic landscapes in language learning, language teacher education and professional development and tech literacy.

Francesca Gallina has a postdoctoral position at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. She completed her PhD in Linguistics and Didactics of Italian as L2 with a dissertation on the development of the lexical competence of learners of Italian as L2. Her main research areas are: L2 vocabulary acquisition, corpus linguistics, language contact and multilingualism, impact of language policies on L2 teaching and learning processes and linguistic landscape.