The Linguistic Landscape of the Mediterranean
Subtitle: French and Italian coastal cities
By: Robert J.Blackwood, University of Liverpool, UK ; Stefania Tufi  University of Liverpool, UK
Contributors: Tufi, Stefania, 1963- author
Series: Language and Globalization
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230290983
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; Communication; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Italian; Bilingualism; Languages; Globalization; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French; Languages in contact; Language and languages
Description: "This book explores the Linguistic Landscapes of ten French and Italian Mediterranean coastal cities, analysing the ways in which the public space is managed by different individuals and groups for a range of purposes. Engaging with scholarship on border studies, insularity, peripherality, cosmopolitanism, and social representations, Blackwood and Tufi test the ways in which research beyond sociolinguistics can meaningfully inform Linguistic Landscape studies. The authors privilege four specific perspectives, namely the visibility of national languages, the claiming of space for regional languages and dialects, the creation of transnational spaces for migrant languages, and the role of English in cosmopolitan place-making. Drawing on their own data from along the Mediterranean shoreline, Blackwood and Tufi provide the first in-depth and cross-referenced examination of written language use in the public space in Perpignan, Trieste, Nice, Monaco, Genoa, Palermo, Cagliari, Ajaccio, Marseilles, and Naples"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction1. Sketching the Context: France and Italy2. Borders: The Ligurian Sea3. Borders: The Gulfs of Trieste and Lion4. The Islands: Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica5. Cities: Marseilles and Naples6. English in the Mediterranean7. Conclusions: The Transformative Power of Emplaced Language.