Linguistic Landscape studies examine language(s) in public spaces. This study focuses on the interplay of language, space and sociocultural context: Yaoundé’s Linguistic Landscape is examined with respect to its multilingual and multimodal nature. Next to a sociolinguistic framework, a (socio)cognitive analysis is also put centre stage.
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Linguistic Landscape research draws attention to human-produced signs in public spaces is predominantly concerned with the visual representation of language in public. As soon as people start to interact with their environment in various forms, the landscape becomes a socially constructed space.
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Introduction — Cameroon’s colonial past and its present sociolinguistic situation: Language policy, diversity and the marginalisation of languages — Approaching the linguistic landscape - LL tokens, and multimodality in the African context(s)— Setting the scene: The research site and methodology — Types of signs in the linguistic landscape: Towards a cognitive-functional approach — Multilingualism and the linguistic landscape: Multilingual signs, language contact and translanguaging — Culture and the linguistic landscape: Local language use and other semiotic representations — Governmental signs and the linguistic landscape: The renegotiation of space, language policy implications and prototypicality —(Multilingual) advertisements and the role of English in Yaoundé’s linguistic landscape — Language in the linguistic landscape - A conclusion — References .
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ISBN
9783631877203
Publisert
2022
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Peter Lang AG
Vekt
461 gr
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210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note
Neele Mundt is a lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. She works in the field of sociolinguistics with a focus on English in central Africa. She spent one year in Yaoundé, where she collected field data for her research project situated at the juncture of (cognitive) sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape studies in Cameroon. Her research interests include multilingualism, (cognitive) sociolinguistics and applied linguistics in general, and with a focus on Africa in particular.