1st Edition
Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia The Politics of Language and Public Signage
Introduction Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi Section One: Globalization and Population Mobility 1. Language Ideology in the Linguistic Landscape of Hanoi Tu Thien Tran 2. Multilingual Cityscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space in Taiwan: A Study of Two Urban Settings Su-chiao Chen Section Two: Minority Languages 3. Constructing a visual multilingual reality in Singapore’s schools Charmaine Ng 4. Accommodating Chinese Community Languages in Penang: Evidence from the Linguistic Landscape and Local Voices Teresa Wai See Ong & Selim Ben Said 5. Landscape and the struggle for survival: The Case of Cavite Chabacano Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley & Patricia Gubitosi Section Three: Constructing, Negotiating and Contesting identities 6. Understanding the identity/identities of Hong Kong people throughtransgressive signs Phoenix W. Y. Lam 7. Semiotic practices, power and identity: Linguistic landscape at the airport in Shanghai Songqing Li, Hongli Yang 8. “Keep Original”: Translanguaging and Identity Construction Among East Javanese Football Supporters Nurenzia Yannuar 9. Conclusion Robert Blackwood
Biography
Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (Multiling), University of Oslo, Norway. Prior to taking up his fellowship at Multiling, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His recent publications include articles in Language in Society, Current Issues in Language Planning, International Journal of Multilingualism, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and Linguistic Landscape.
