Book Review: Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication by Gunther Kress, 2010. London: Routledge, pp. xvii + 212 ISBN 978 0 415 32061 0 (pbk)

In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a protest sign, a blog commenting on this sign, and a political cartoon using the same image featured on two other signs. I explore how social actors drew upon and mediated specific discourses in their protest signs that became transportable across time and space, the role of these signs in transforming public space, and this linguistic landscape’s ensuing mobilities in its mediated relocations to online social media sites and blogs.

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Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park

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2015

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In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a protest sign, a blog commenting on this sign, and a political cartoon using the same image featured on two other signs. I explore how social actors drew upon and mediated specific discourses in their protest signs that became transportable across time and space, the role of these signs in transforming public space, and this linguistic landscape’s ensuing mobilities in its mediated relocations to online social media sites and blogs. Keywords: linguistic landscapes; space; mobility; allusion; social media; mediated discourse analysis; Occupy Movement

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Book Review: Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication by Gunther Kress, 2010. London: Routledge, pp. xvii + 212 ISBN 978 0 415 32061 0 (pbk)

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Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park

Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park

Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park

Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park

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