linguistic landscape

Linguistic Landscapes in Europe - Alternative city tours?

Article

Irina Jidoveanu

Ralf Cnobloch

Fatima Casio

Alisa Kulishkina

26/05/2023

11 minutes to read

This article highlights both the similarities and the differences between how different ethnic groups express themselves depending on the social, political, historical, and cultural context.

How Semiotic Signs Can Be Both Helpful and Misleading

Article

Jenny de Kleijn

Cristina Sanz Rutherford

23/06/2023

10 minutes to read

This article presents a linguistic landscape analysis of two stores in the Netherlands to see if semiotic signs always reach the goal they were originally intended for.

Coffee places in Tilburg as linguistic landscapes

Article

Savina Karneva

Jekaterina Batireva

Simone Sprangers

07/12/2019

21 minutes to read

In this article, we analyze three different coffee places in Tilburg as linguistic landscapes in order to illustate hidden indexical meanings found in them, which point to their history, their present, and their future with customers.

Ok boomer and the 'generation war'

Article

Leonie Milder

Jeroen J. de Wit

Aleksandra Dimitrova

04/12/2019

14 minutes to read

By now, everyone has heard of it. The term ‘ok boomer’ has gone viral. The term comes from 'Baby Boomer', a name for the generation born between 1946 and 1964. Now, it means something completely different as the 'generation war' rages on.

Political polarization Ghent linguistic landscape protest from the left

Political polarization in Ghent: a "radical" linguistic landscape

Article

Claudia Gerards

Lisa van Turnhout

Merveille N'gbale

13/11/2019

32 minutes to read

With a shift towards the far-right, politics in Flanders have become rather polarized. In Ghent's linguistic landscape, we see counter noise coming from the left. What does this tell us about Ghent in the context of Flemish politics?

¡ toros vivos ! The semiotic landscape of Murcia

Article

Sjaak Kroon

16/10/2019

7 minutes to read

Bullfights are allowed again in Spain, even in Catalonia. In the Spanish city of Murcia, Sjaak Kroon discovered some traces of veganarchistic resistance against this example of Spanish cultural heritage.

What linguistic landscapes hide

Column

Jan Blommaert

26/02/2019

6 minutes to read

Offline linguistic landscapes hide a lot that only becomes overt when one traces these landscapes to their online extensions. It is by this move that we begin to get a grasp of the real complexity of "local" phenomena in a superdiverse world.

Strijp-S: A Straight Line To Urban Rejuvenation

Paper

Vanda Vozarikova

14/09/2018

17 minutes to read

In his paper Strijp-S, an area in Eindhoven, is analyzed with regards to whether the innovation the area strives for is reflected in its linguistic landscape.