Book contents
- Linguistic Landscapes
- Linguistic Landscapes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Places in Figures
- Diagrams
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Approaching the Linguistic Landscape
- 2 Why Linguistic Landscape?
- 3 Doing Things with Codes
- 4 Space and Landscape
- 5 People
- 6 The Linguistic Landscape as Discourse
- 7 Time, Space, and the LL
- 8 Researching Linguistic Landscapes
- References
- Index
7 - Time, Space, and the LL
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
- Linguistic Landscapes
- Linguistic Landscapes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Places in Figures
- Diagrams
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Approaching the Linguistic Landscape
- 2 Why Linguistic Landscape?
- 3 Doing Things with Codes
- 4 Space and Landscape
- 5 People
- 6 The Linguistic Landscape as Discourse
- 7 Time, Space, and the LL
- 8 Researching Linguistic Landscapes
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that the Linguistic Landscape (LL) brings together orientations towards past, present, and future in complex ways which distinguish it from other forms of discourse and from language in the grammatical sense. In this analysis, every unit of the LL points to a past act of a sign instigator which is viewed in the framework of present relevance but which also points toward states and actions in a relative future. This complexity determines that each unit in the LL carries its own temporal frame of reference, which may include direct reference to time, time inflections that allow for stylistic means of invoking additional notions of time, and the unit time which follows as a consequence of the unit’s physical features. From this perspective, it is argued that there is no single present in the LL, but, rather, that the LL encompasses a flow of different – sometimes contradictory – temporal references. Fieldwork examples from six countries illustrate the operation in the LL of historical ghost signage and remnants, changes in street naming policies, tourism, nostalgia and repurposing, historical commemoration, and discourse features of political graffiti.
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- Linguistic LandscapesA Sociolinguistic Approach, pp. 218 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023