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Review of Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Spaceby Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow
(CMDR, 2015)
Although the volume was published
in 2010, it still remains one of the
most important contributions to a new
field of enquiry in the study of language
and signage in public spaces initially
conceptualised and ...
Diversity and contested social identities in multilingual and multicultural contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
We draw on Rampton's Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among
Adolescents (2014. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge) notion of 'crossing' to
explore contestations in ethnolinguistic, cultural and racial affiliations at
the ...
"Poof! a'm heppily saving the Lord...": multimodality and evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
This paper explores the use of punctuation, capitalisation, linguistic forms and
images in the construction of evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the
University of the Western Cape. Of particular interest ...
Doing politics in the recent Arab uprisings: Towards a political discourse analysis of the Arab Spring slogans
(Brill publishers, 2015)
The present paper aims to analyse a number of those slogans collected from the sit-in quarters in Egypt,
Libya and Yemen. Using political discourse analysis, it unravels various typical discourse structures and
strategies ...
The semiotic ecology of linguistic landscapes in rural Zambia
(John Wiley & Sons LTD., 2015)
In addressing the dearth in studies on linguistic/semiotic landscapes in
oral-language dominant rural communities, we use the notion of
repurposing to show how people from rural areas of Livingstone and
Lusaka in Zambia ...