Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introducing Semiotic Landscapes -- 1. Changing Landscapes: Language, Space and Policy in the Dublin Linguistic Landscape -- 2. Discourses in Transit -- 3. Welsh Linguistic Landscapes 'From Above' and 'From Below' -- 4. Ideological Struggles on Signage in Jamaica -- 5. Sex in the City: On Making Space and Identity in Travel Spaces -- 6. Spatial Narrations: Graffscapes and City Souls -- 7. Cyberspace and Physical Space: Attention Structures in Computer Mediated Communication -- 8. 'A Latino Community Takes Hold': Reproducing Semiotic Landscapes in Media Discourse -- 9. Silence is Golden: The 'Anti-communicational' Linguascaping of Super-elite Mobility -- 10. War Monuments and the Changing Discourses of Nation and Soldiery -- 11. Building the Nation, Writing the Past: History and Textuality at the Ha'apala Memorial in Tel Aviv-Jaffa -- 12. Faces of Places: Façades as Global Communication in Post-Eastern Bloc Urban Renewal -- 13. Semiosis Takes Place or Radical Uses of Quaint Theories -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

Semiotic Landscapes is an exciting addition to the study of linguistic landscapes. It looks at how landscape generates meaning and combines three major areas of scholarly interest each concerned with central dimensions of contemporary life: language and visual discourse, spatial practices, and also the changes bought about by global capitalism and ever increasing mediatization. The editors look at: the textual/discursive construction of place; the use of space as a semiotic resource; the extent to which these processes are shaped by wider economic and political re-orderings of post-industrial or advanced capitalism; changing patterns of human mobility and transnational flows of ideas and images. The collection demonstrates the way written discourse interacts with all other discursive modalities: visual images, nonverbal communication, architecture and the built environment. From the red light districts of Switzerland to the transgressive public art of graffiti, all landscape can be seen to generate meaning. Semiotic Landscapes looks at how and why, and places this meaning generation in an interdisciplinary and thoroughly modern cross-section of global trends.

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