Beware of the dog! Private linguistic landscapes in two ‘Hungarian’ villages in South-West Slovakia

Laihonen, Petteri

doi:10.1007/s10993-015-9358-y

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“…Our study demonstrates how reading a single type of sign, insignificant at first glance, can be closely connected to larger scale societal issues (see Laihonen, 2016; Pandey, 2017). We consider the dog signs as our window to societal norms since they are available in different contexts (e.g.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…Dog signs reside in the under-researched intersection of private and public signage, that is they are private signs in public space (Laihonen, 2016; Pandey, 2017) or, as we will show, public signs controlling the keeping of pets and thus restricting private people in their leisure activities. Representations of dogs have already been studied as indicators of control (hygiene), hierarchies (class) and social history in general (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Signs regulating human–dog interaction control various types of spaces (see Laihonen, 2016). Most often they prohibit, or at least restrict ‘being’ of dogs or humans in some specific space, indicated by the placement of the sign.…”

Section: Theoretical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kete, 1995; Swart, 2007). However, despite their general nature, little attention has been paid to dog signs as forms of communication of restrictions and social norms through them (but see Laihonen, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our starting point for choosing a comparative approach was to investigate our initial observation of a kind of ‘complementary distribution’ that we had discovered when starting to analyse the two cases together. Originally we had gathered dog signs independently without being aware of each others’ data, and had analysed them separately (see Laihonen, 2016). Joining forces, we noticed that in the urban environments (a collection of photographs of dog signs in Jyväskylä, Finland by Mia Halonen), the gathered signs often restrict dogs from different spaces and places (see Figure 3 below), whereas in the Eastern European rural instances, dog signs mostly appear to restrict humans (see Figure 4).…”

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confidence: 99%

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From ‘no dogs here!’ to ‘beware of the dog!’: restricting dog signs as a reflection of social norms

Halonen

Laihonen

2019

Visual Communication

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Signs in public space reflect ‘normalcy’ in a community. The authors ask what restricting signs tell us about a society? In order to explore the system and variation in the ways dog signs manifest different norms and control, they compare two different data sets: dog signs in a Northern European town, Jyväskylä in Finland, and two Eastern European villages in Romania. They apply a qualitative methodology based on visual communication, geosemiotics and linguistic landscape studies. The focus of the article is on the resources of addressing and the visual semiotics of the image. The investigated communities seem to create a complementary distribution of what they regulate that is also displayed through their semiotics: the Jyväskylä examples are prohibitions for dogs ‘being’ while the Romanian cases consist of warnings or threats. Both prohibitions and warnings implicate the norms and normalities in the communities, showing where they stand in terms of a continuum between a ‘dog as a pet’ and a ‘dog as a (co-)worker’. As images, the urban signs in Jyväskylä can be characterized as icons of a small collared pet, placed as a part of top-down communication in ‘tight’ public spaces. In contrast, the photographs of big dogs in the open and private Romanian village spaces refer to some specific guard dog, through which their owners communicate a benevolent warning or an intimidating threat.

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Section: Theoretical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 78%

Section: Theoretical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Sites and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

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From ‘no dogs here!’ to ‘beware of the dog!’: restricting dog signs as a reflection of social norms

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Laihonen

2019

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Im/politeness on the move: A study of regulatory discourse practices in Slovakia's centre of tourism

Ferenčík

2018

Journal of Pragmatics

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Pandey

2017

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This paper examines the in-built message modality of Republican Party campaign yard signage in the 2016 U.S. Presidential race, and argues for a ‘reading’ in which known and unknown contender biographical details and idiolectal patterns form a key component in analyses using material ethnography. Examining the grammar of visuality in which typographic choice, toponymic-allusion, punctuational detail, as well as onomastics and embedded speech acts emerge ripe in literal and metaphoric meaning, the paper demonstrates how acts of intertextual chaining of political history and candidate biography re-affirm the need for interpretive frameworks which are dynamic – not static – and which are simultaneously incorporative of exophoric text-context accounts of witnessed signage. The in-built potential of campaign yard signage in triggering contagious and conspicuous acts of affective stance-taking particularly in neighborhoods of geospatial contiguity are examined both for how they fit into LL research, as well as for how they prod further innovation in its interdisciplinary-inspired and evolving frameworks of analysis.

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Beware of the dog! Private linguistic landscapes in two ‘Hungarian’ villages in South-West Slovakia

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

From ‘no dogs here!’ to ‘beware of the dog!’: restricting dog signs as a reflection of social norms

From ‘no dogs here!’ to ‘beware of the dog!’: restricting dog signs as a reflection of social norms

Im/politeness on the move: A study of regulatory discourse practices in Slovakia's centre of tourism

“When size matters”

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