A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies,

Author

Cenoz; Jasone ; Gorter; Durk

Year

2024

Publisher

Multilingual Matters / Channel View Publications

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-80041-715-1

Link

Last Update

24-Jul-2025

Keywords

Linguistics ; Language & Literature ; Sociology

Description

Over the last couple of decades, the study of linguistic landscape has established itself as an attractive and exciting field of research. In this book, we want to present a panorama of this ever-expanding field, based to some extent on our own studies and publications. Today, there are more signs in public spaces than ever before and visual information is more and more dominant. In shopping streets and commercial and industrial areas, we find the highest density of signs with an abundant visual display of texts, symbols and images. In addition, the sides of roads, in particular on highways near...