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Durk Gorter (ed.), Linguistic landscape: A new approach to multilingualism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2008

Thomas D. Mitchell
Thomas D. Mitchell
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English, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, [email protected]
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Durk Gorter (ed.), Linguistic landscape: A new approach to multilingualism. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2006. Pp. 1, 89. Hb $54.95.

The four articles in this book adopt the definition of linguistic landscape (LL) offered by Rodrigue Landry & Richard Y. Bourhis (1997:25) as their authors investigate the visual makeup of cities worldwide: “The language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings combines to form the linguistic landscape of a given territory, region, or urban conglomeration.” The authors categorize signs as either top-down (official signs issued by public bureaucracies) or bottom-up (non-official signs posted by individuals or businesses), and each article examines details such as where the signs appear, the order and relative prominence of languages on multilingual signs, and whether or not multilingual signs contain (full or partial) translations.

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Language in Society , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 312 - 313
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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