Place making in the declarative city Der Band zeigt interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das Konzept der deklarativen Stadt auf die von semiotischer Komplexität und Widersprüchlichkeit gekennzeichnet ist. Die Beiträge aus der Literatur und Sprachwissenschaft der Kunst(geschichte) der Diskursanalyse aber auch aus stadtplanerischer Perspektive beleuchten deklarative und diskursive Praktiken in unterschiedlichen sozialen kulturellen ästhetischen sowie historischen Zusammenhängen This volume looks at the concept of the declarative city from an interdisciplinary perspective comprising literary and linguistic studies arts and art history discourse analysis as well as urban planning. The various contributions demonstrate the semiotic complexity and inconsistency of declarative and discursive practices in different social cultural aesthetic and historical contexts Frontmatter Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures Declaring Places Placing Declaratives – An Introduction ‘Her Seedy Elegance’ – An Intermedial Investigation of Crowds as a Central Part of Dublin’s Soundscape in James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer (1925) “Small Town” or “Small City” – ‘Inter Textual Place Making’ in Queenstown New Zealand Chaos and Conflict or Complexity and Pluralism – Multimodality and Perspectives on Potential Attributions of Meaning in the Egyptian Capital of Cairo “Das Haus Deutschland unter einem Europäischen Dach” – Helmut Kohl’s Political Implementation of the Symbolic Value of Dresden’s Frauenkirche The Linguistic Landscape of Chicago’s La Villita Talk about Talk – From an Urban Space to a Dialect Place – How a Collective Body of Knowledge Influences Communicative Dynamics in Naples Linguistic Landscape and Beyond – The Swiss People’s Party’s (SVP) Campaign Posters in Urban Areas in the Media and as Temporary Public Places of Urban Communication English as a Written Representation of the Visual Mode – A Study of Public Advertising in Klagenfurt Austria Ancient Roman City Gates – Hubs in a Network List of Contributors Index