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The linguistic landscape of the Mediterranean, French and Italian coastal cities, Robert J.Blackwood, University of Liverpool, UK ; Stefania Tufi University of Liverpool, UK

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Label

The linguistic landscape of the Mediterranean, French and Italian coastal cities, Robert J.Blackwood, University of Liverpool, UK ; Stefania Tufi University of Liverpool, UK

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The linguistic landscape of the Mediterranean

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

909321066

Responsibility statement

Robert J.Blackwood, University of Liverpool, UK ; Stefania Tufi University of Liverpool, UK

Series statement

Language and globalization

Sub title

French and Italian coastal cities

Summary

This book explores the Linguistic Landscapes of ten French and Italian Mediterranean coastal cities, analysing the ways in which the public space is managed by different individuals and groups for a range of purposes. Engaging with scholarship on border studies, insularity, peripherality, cosmopolitanism, and social representations, Blackwood and Tufi test the ways in which research beyond sociolinguistics can meaningfully inform Linguistic Landscape studies. The authors privilege four specific perspectives, namely the visibility of national languages, the claiming of space for regional languages and dialects, the creation of transnational spaces for migrant languages, and the role of English in cosmopolitan place-making. Drawing on their own data from along the Mediterranean shoreline, Blackwood and Tufi provide the first in-depth and cross-referenced examination of written language use in the public space in Perpignan, Trieste, Nice, Monaco, Genoa, Palermo, Cagliari, Ajaccio, Marseilles, and Naples--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

An introduction to Mediterranean linguistic landscapes -- Sketching the context: France and Italy -- The linguistic landscapes of the Ligurian Sea -- Peripherality in the border areas: Trieste and Northern Catalonia -- Insularity in the linguistic landscapes of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica -- Social representations of Marseilles and Naples' linguistic landscapes -- Cosmpolitan linguistic landscapes of the Mediterranean -- Conclusions: the transformative power of emplaced language

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