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Metaphor

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A metaphor is a trope, or a figure of speech, that directly refers to one thing by mentioning features of another one; an object, or an idea, is viewed as a metaphor which offers people new ways of examining ideas and viewing the world.

ELLA 2.0

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ELLA stands for "Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis", and 2.0 points to the fact that offline signs are followed through to their online dimensions. ELLA 2.0 is, thus, online-offline Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis.

Linguistic landscape

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Linguistic landscape is an object of sociolinguistic analysis and comprises publicly visible language samples displayed in a certain area.

Linguistic landscapes: an introduction

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The Editors

30/09/2016

2 minutes to read

What is a linguistic landscape?An introduction to the file.

Linguistic landscapes

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"Meeting of Styles" and the online infrastructures of graffiti

Academic paper

Jan Blommaert

29/08/2016

16 minutes to read

Social phenomena that looks very outspokenly "offline", such as graffiti, can no longer be understood without looking at the online infrastructures supporting them.

Historical Advertisements in the streets of Tilburg

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Mirjam Verhoeven

29/06/2016

13 minutes to read

Historical signs and buildings are all around us. Do their meanings stay fixed or do they change with the passing of time?