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Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel.
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In this article, the degree of visibility on private and public signs of the three major languages of Israel-Hebrew, Arabic and English is compared in a variety of homogeneous and mixed Israeli cities, and in East Jerusalem.Abstract:
Linguistic landscape (LL) refers to linguistic objects that mark the public space. This paper compares patterns of LL in a variety of homogeneous and mixed Israeli cities, and in East Jerusalem. The groups studied were Israeli Jews, Palestinian Israelis and non-Israeli Palestinians from East Jerusalem, of whom most are not Israeli citizens. The study focused on the degree of visibility on private and public signs of the three major languages of Israel-Hebrew, Arabic and English. This study reveals essentially different LL patterns in Israel's various communities: Hebrew–English signs prevail in Jewish communities; Arabic Hebrew in Israeli–Palestinian communities; Arabic–English in East Jerusalem. Further analyses also evince significant – and different – discrepancies between public and private signs in the localities investigated. All in all, LL items are not faithfully representative of the linguistic repertoire typical of Israel's ethnolinguistic diversity, but rather of those linguistic resources that...read more
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The Production of Space
TL;DR: In this article, Jacobi describes the production of space poetry in the form of a poetry collection, called Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated and unedited.
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Towards a material ethnography of linguistic landscape: Multilingualism, mobility and space in a South African township
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that more refined notions of space coupled with a material ethnography of multilingualism could provide a theoretically more relevant and methodologically refocused notion of (multilingual) linguistic landscape.
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Commodified language in Chinatown: A contextualized approach to linguistic landscape1
Jennifer Leeman,Gabriella Modan +1 more
TL;DR: This article analyzed how written language interacts with other features of the built environment to construct commodified urban places, and linked micro-level analysis of individual Chinese-language signs to the specific local socio-geographic processes of spatial commodification.
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The production of space
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a plan of the present work, from absolute space to abstract space, from the Contradictions of Space to Differential Space, and from Contradictory Space to Social Space.
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The Production of Space
TL;DR: In this article, Jacobi describes the production of space poetry in the form of a poetry collection, called Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated and unedited.
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Forms of talk
TL;DR: This paper brought together five of Goffman's essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk" for discussion and analysis.
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The Field of Cultural Production Essays on Art and Literature
Pierre Bourdieu,Randal Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: The field of cultural production is the contribution to an economy of symbolic goods as discussed by the authors, or contribution to a symbolic goods market, the market of the symbolic goods is a market for symbolic goods.