Shohami Elana, Eliezer Ben-Refael and Monica Barni (eds.) 2010. Linguistic Landscape in the City. Multilingual Matters.
This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major
world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality.
Contents
Introduction by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Elana Shohamy, Monica Barni
Part I: LL multilingualisms
1. Monica Barni and Carla Bagna: Linguistic Landscapes and language vitality; 2. Jeffrey L. Kallen and Esther Kallen:
Language and inter-language in urban Irish and Japanese linguistic landscapes; 3. Yael Guilat: “The Holy Ark in the
Street”
Part II: Top-down, power and reactions
4. Shoshi Waksman and Elana Shohamy: Decorating the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa for its centennial; 5. Theo du Plessis:
Bloemfontein/Mangaung, ‘City on the move’; 6. Jia Jackie Lou: Chinese on the side; 7. Heiko Marten: LL under Strict State
Language Policy; 8. Aneta Pavlenko: Linguistic landscape of Kyiv , Ukraine
Part III: Benefits of LL
9. Adam Jaworski and Simone Yeung: Life in the Garden of Eden; 10. Jennifer Leeman and Gabriella Modan: Selling the
City; 11. David Malinowski: Showing Seeing in the Korean Linguistic Cityscape
Part IV: Perceptions of passers-by
12.Jokin Aiestaran, Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter: Multilingual cityscapes; 13. Nira Trumper-Hecht: LL in Mixed Cities
in Israel from the Perspective of ‘Walkers’; 14. Rebecca Garvin: Responses to the Linguistic Landscape in Memphis,
Tennessee
Part V: Multiculturalism in LL
15. François Bogatto and Christine Helot: Linguistic Landscape and Language Diversity in Strasbourg; 16. Robert
Blackwood: Marking France’s public space; 17. Gerda de Klerk and Terrence G. Wiley: Linguistic landscape as
multi-layered representation; 18. Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-Rafael: Diaspora and returning diaspora
