Linguistic landscape and urban multilingualism

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“…In sostanza, questi esercizi o centri costituiscono un frame che risulta distinto sia dal civic frame che dal marketplace propriamente detti. Questa nuova tipologia integra la classificazione delle categorie del database Paesaggi & Lingue, che utilizza l'etichetta di «altro», sotto la quale confluiscono alcune categorie che presentano «ambiguità [...] riconducibili alla composizione mista delle unità» (Uberti-Bona, 2021: 544; vedi inoltre Bagna, Barni, 2009).…”

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

“…In recent years, the perspective has become an accepted specialization of applied linguistics (Gorter, 2013), sociolinguistics (Van Mensel et al, 2016), language policy studies (Shohamy, 2019) and contact linguistics (Bagna et al, 2021;Bolton et al, 2020). It has also provided fresh insights for the field of onomastics (Puzey, 2016).…”

“…It demonstrates the importance for his own project in Tokyo, and for many other projects that follow later. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that recent handbooks on language contact research have begun to include a separate chapter on linguistic landscape studies (Bagna et al, 2021;Bolton et al, 2020;Gorter, 2019b). Usually, in those chapters a short overview of the field is given and its relevance for language contact studies is explained.…”

“…The topic of gentrification recurs with some regularity in linguistic landscape studies because the transformation process of a neighborhood exerts an important influence on the public space and thus on the linguistic landscape. Gentrification is mentioned as a recent research line in the overview publication by Bagna et al (2021). Studies on urban planning have understood gentrification as 'the transformation of a workingclass or vacant area of the central city into middle-class residential and/ or commercial use' (Lees et al, 2008: xv).…”

“…We can further observe that university courses in, for instance, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, increasingly include linguistic landscapes as part of the curriculum. In an overview of the field, Bagna et al (2021) claimed that the relationship between linguistic landscapes and education will continue to receive attention in research.…”