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3 - Doing Things with Codes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

Jeffrey L. Kallen
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Dublin
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Summary

In this chapter, language choices in the Linguistic Landscape (LL) are examined in relation to official language policy and personal language choices. Particularly significant are signage units which express messages using two or more languages or other linguistic codes. Different codes can express the same message, but they may display different messages which may be aimed at different audiences. Rather than simply putting messages into particular linguistic envelopes, units of the LL develop intricate communicative actions in the choices of size and placement for particular languages, and in the different ways in which languages make references to texts and cultural features which lie outside the signage itself. Using photographs from 11 countries, the chapter also shows that the LL provides a forum for language play, displays of elite language, cross-linguistic typographical effects, and the incorporation of visual images into writing systems.

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Linguistic Landscapes
A Sociolinguistic Approach
, pp. 51 - 79
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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