Politically Open—Sociolinguistically Semi-Permeable: A Linguistic Landscape View into the Lithuanian-Polish Borderland

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

“…In recent years, several linguistic landscape studies have appeared about post-Soviet countries and, among others, the three Baltic States have been documented extensively. Among others, studies appeared on Estonia (Brown, 2012(Brown, , 2018Zabrodskaja, 2014), Latvia (Marten, 2010(Marten, , 2012Pošeiko, 2015) and Lithuania (Kudžmaitė & Juffermans, 2020;Moore, 2019aMoore, , 2019bMuth, 2008Muth, , 2012. In their general introduction on the Baltic States, Lazdina and Marten (2019) included developments on linguistic landscapes next to multilingualism, language contact and majority-minority relations.…”

“…Only for one town in Lithuania did they mention the use of some Polish due to the proximity of the Polish border (see Chapter 9 for the outcomes for English). The border between Lithuania and Poland was also studied by Kudžmaitė and Juffermans (2020). They found that the language regulations for Lithuanian were more strictly implemented than for Polish.…”

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

“…In recent years, several linguistic landscape studies have appeared about post-Soviet countries and, among others, the three Baltic States have been documented extensively. Among others, studies appeared on Estonia (Brown, 2012(Brown, , 2018Zabrodskaja, 2014), Latvia (Marten, 2010(Marten, , 2012Pošeiko, 2015) and Lithuania (Kudžmaitė & Juffermans, 2020;Moore, 2019aMoore, , 2019bMuth, 2008Muth, , 2012. In their general introduction on the Baltic States, Lazdina and Marten (2019) included developments on linguistic landscapes next to multilingualism, language contact and majority-minority relations.…”

Researching Visual Manifestations of Border Spaces and Experiences: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives

“…Both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the visuals encountered on each side of the border can be useful for different purposes. Comparative analysis of the two (or more) sides can reveal multiple dimensions of borders functioning next to each other at different scales, contested or strengthened by one another, and most likely discrepant with the established political border (see Kudžmaitė and Juffermans 2020). defunct Berlin wall quickly became a prime tourist attraction and a sought after artefact (displayed in many countries around the world).…”