Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape [Hardcover]

This book explores the dynamics of the linguistic landscape as a site of conflict, exclusion, and dissent. It focuses on socio-historical, economic, political and ideological issues, such as reflected in mass protest demonstrations, to forge links between landscape, identity, social justice and power.1. Conflict and Exclusion: Linguistic Landscape as an Arena of Contestation; Rani Rubdy
PART I: CONFLICT AND EXCLUSION
2. The Passive Exclusion of Irish in the Linguistic Landscape: A Nexus Analysis; Jo Thistlethwaite and Mark Sebba
3. Unseen Spanish in Small-town America: A Minority Language in the Linguistic Landscape; Robert A. Troyer, Carmen C?ceda and Patricia Gimenez Egu?bar
4. Language Removal, Commodification and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity in Nagorno-Karabakh; Sebastian Muth
5. Negotiating Differential Belonging Via the Linguistic Landscape of Taipei; Melissa L. Curtin
6. Semiotic Landscape, Code Choice, and Exclusion; Luanga A.?Kasanga
7. Linguistic Landscape and Exclusion: An Examination of Language Representation in Disaster Signage in Japan; Mei Shan Tan and Selim Ben Said
8. 'My Way of Speaking, Appearance, All of Myself has to Change': A Story of Inclusion and Exclusion in an Unequal Learning Space; Ruanni Tupas
9. Mobilizing Affect in the Cyber-linguistic Landscape: The R-word Campaign; Lionel Wee
PART II: DISSENT AND PROTEST
10. Occupy Baltimore: A Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Participatory Social Contestation in an American City; David I. Hanauer
11. Overcoming Erasure: Reappropriation of Space in the Linguistic Landscape of Mass-scale Protests; Corinne A. Seals
12. Co-constructing Dissent in the Transient Linguistic Landscape: Multilingual Protest Signs of the Tunisian Revolution; Sonia Shiri
13. A Linguistic Landscape Analysis of the Sociopolitical Demonstrations of Algiers: A Politicized Landscapló,