14. Responses to the Linguistic Landscape in Memphis, Tennessee: An Urban Space in Transition

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction: An Approach to an ‘Ordered Disorder’ xi
5. Part 1: Linguistic Landscape Multilingualisms
6. 1. Linguistic Landscape and Language Vitality 3
7. 2. Language and Inter-language in Urban Irish and Japanese Linguistic Landscapes 19
8. 3. ‘The Holy Ark in the Street’: Sacred and Secular Painting of Utility Boxes in the Public Domain in a Small Israeli Town 37
9. Part 2: Top-down, Power and Reactions
10. 4. Decorating the City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa for its Centennial: Complementary Narratives via Linguistic Landscape 57
11. 5. Bloemfontein/Mangaung, ‘City on the Move’. Language Management and Transformation of a Non-representative Linguistic Landscape 74
12. 6. Chinese on the Side: The Marginalization of Chinese in the Linguistic and Social Landscapes of Chinatown in Washington, DC 96
13. 7. Linguistic Landscape under Strict State Language Policy: Reversing the Soviet Legacy in a Regional Centre in Latvia 115
14. 8. Linguistic Landscape of Kyiv, Ukraine: A Diachronic Study 133
15. Part 3: Benefits of Linguistic Landscape
16. 9. Life in the Garden of Eden: The Naming and Imagery of Residential Hong Kong 153
17. 10. Selling the City: Language, Ethnicity and Commodified Space 182
18. 11. Showing Seeing in the Korean Linguistic Cityscape 199
19. Part 4: Perceptions of Passers-by
20. 12. Multilingual Cityscapes: Perceptions and Preferences of the Inhabitants of the City of Donostia-San Sebastia´n 219
21. 13. Linguistic Landscape in Mixed Cities in Israel from the Perspective of ‘Walkers’: The Case of Arabic 235
22. 14. Responses to the Linguistic Landscape in Memphis, Tennessee: An Urban Space in Transition 252
23. Part 5: Multiculturalism in Linguistic Landscape
24. 15. Linguistic Landscape and Language Diversity in Strasbourg: The ‘Quartier Gare’ 275
25. 16. Marking France’s Public Space: Empirical Surveys on Regional Heritage Languages in Two Provincial Cities 292
26. 17. Linguistic Landscape as Multi-layered Representation: Suburban Asian Communities in the Valley of the Sun 307
27. 18. Diaspora and Returning Diaspora: French-Hebrew and Vice-Versa 326
28. Epilogue: The Theoretical Edge 344
29. Index 347