Spray-Canned Discourses Reimagining Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship Trough Linguistic Landscapes in the Balkans

Canakis, Costas; Kersten-Pejanić, Roswitha

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“…Lampe 1996;Ramet 1996;Štiks 2006;Shaw and Štiks 2013). What is more interesting are the extensions of this symbolic currency to other domains (Canakis and Kersten-Pejanić 2016), which justifies Ivković's (2015a: 109) observation that the choice of alphabet in Serbia is anything but arbitrary, for its consequences go well beyond alphabetic preference. See also Ivković (2013), who suggests that alphabet use on the internet shows both the dominance of the Latin alphabet as well as the stabilization of its nonstandard orthographic variants.…”

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“…LGBT 3 rights have been routinely cast as serving foreign interests and as undermining both srpstvo and Serbian sovereignty (Canakis 2013;Canakis and Kersten-Pejanić 2016). It is interesting that the very same "foreign-mercenary" rhetoric has been noted in the literature in relation to linguistic and political facts in Serbia (Bugarski 1997a) -and it is by no means a Serbian novelty (cf.…”

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Contesting Identity in the Linguistic Landscape of Belgrade: An Ethnographic Approach

Canakis¹

2018

Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies

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This paper investigates aspects of the Linguistic Landscape of central Belgrade between 2009 and 2017, theorizing its findings at the intersection of sociolinguistics, ethnography, and semiotics, which has gained ground as the platform of choice in "second wave" linguistic landscape (LL) research. It focuses on dynamic indexical relations between space and language in the framework of superdiversity, as a way of making sense of language-in-society. To this end, it problematizes how ideologically laden identitarian concerns (such as digraphia/double literacy but also Christian Orthodoxy and heteronormativity as an index of srpstvo) find their way onto Stari Grad walls. Such concerns have considerable-and often lasting-effects on the LL which can only be adequately investigated by systematic ethnographic studies of the semiotic means employed in inscribing it.

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Contesting Identity in the Linguistic Landscape of Belgrade: An Ethnographic Approach

Canakis¹

2018

Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies

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“…For example, concepts of ethnic (and other) identity-making, national belonging, citizenship, and activism and their potential to influence people's everyday-life, clearly is a pivotal aspect of linguistic landscape research. The wars of the 1990s and the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia left deep traces in the Yugoslav successor states that can hardly stay unnoticed up until today, twenty years after the last armed conflicts took place in the region (Canakis 2016;Canakis & Kersten-Pejanić 2016). Public discourses show ongoing political irritation and uncertainties.…”

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“…Glaring signs of increasingly manifested ideological conflicts, and ethnicitybased hostilities between the different national groups of former Yugoslavia (Bieber 2011) can be perceived in the physical landscape. Yet, those discourses of ethnic hatred (Bilkić 2018) are also clearly visible in people's 'writings on the wall', and so are other discourses of hatred, such as homophobia (Canakis & Kersten-Pejanić 2016). Furthermore, the coexistence of different national entities in former Yugoslavia have shown to significantly shape the linguistic landscapes in terms of multiculturalism and superdiversity (Grbavac 2013;Vuković 2012).…”

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“…Instead of a 'corporate sense' of Yugoslavia, manifested -or at least officially proclaimed-in the maxim of 'bratstvo i jedinstvo' (Cvetković-Sander 2012), there are obvious trends of enduring (ethno)nationalism (Bieber 2011) and a "renewed traditionalist discourse" (Ramet 2015: 357). Those trends do not only impact the societies in question but, of course, permeate space, as occupied and turned into place by human agency (Canakis & Kersten-Pejanić 2016): by people in these societies. My own ongoing research on the linguistic landscape in two designated fields at Croatian borderlands 7 shows how nationalist and revisionist politics of memory (Radonić 2010;Kuljić 2010) are significant for the linguistic landscape in post-conflict rural areas.…”

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Ethnographic accounts of linguistic issues in the Yugoslav successor states: An introduction

Kersten-Pejanić

2019

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Doing ethnographic linguistics (or linguistic ethnography) in the area of what used to be Yugoslavia is both a challenging and a promising undertaking. Challenging, in that there are so many ideological traps to take into consideration. Promising, in that there are so many complex matters to take a closer look at. These matters, even when exclusively realized in linguistic means, may have great influence on people’s everyday political, cultural, and social meaning-making. Especially so, as indexical relations and the ideological premises and effects of choosing to use one linguistic realization over the other, has played an important role for all speech communities in the region.

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Conflictual translanguaging in the linguistic landscape of a divided city

Tsiplakou

2023

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Nicosia is a divided European capital; the two major ethnic communities on the island, Greek and Turkish Cypriots, were separated de facto following the war of 1974. The inner-city areas delimited by the UN-controlled buffer zone were long abandoned but recently there have been attempts at gentrification. The landscape is linguistically and textually rich and diverse; walls, fences, doorways, even the walls of the ‘border’ are inscribed with an abundance of texts including political slogans, advertisements for rallies or local festivals, graffiti, posters, stencilled images, etc. In this paper, I focus on the visual and linguistic dialectic of texts that are generated ‘top-down’ and texts generated ‘bottom-up’; the former display normativity and linguistic prescriptivism, as the dominant language is Standard Greek, the ‘H’ variety in the Greek Cypriot diglossic context. In the latter, the linguistic choice de rigueur is translanguaging, involving (i) aspects of the Cypriot Greek dialect, the ‘L’ variety that is still by-and-large banned from the public domain, and code-mixing between Standard and Cypriot Greek, (ii) the use of other languages, mostly English but also French, Turkish, Russian, among others, (iii) ungrammatical structures or ‘nonsensical’ texts and (iv) subversion of orthographic conventions, etc. A micro-level linguistic analysis of individual texts and of particular types of translanguaging and linguistic and orthographic bricolage is proffered and the argument is put forward that the counternormativity of such production is predicated not only upon its content and form but crucially also upon its interdiscursivity and its engagement in an ongoing conflictual dialectic with ‘top-down’ prescriptive production.

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Spray-Canned Discourses Reimagining Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship Trough Linguistic Landscapes in the Balkans

Cited by 9 publications

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Contesting Identity in the Linguistic Landscape of Belgrade: An Ethnographic Approach

Contesting Identity in the Linguistic Landscape of Belgrade: An Ethnographic Approach

Ethnographic accounts of linguistic issues in the Yugoslav successor states: An introduction

Conflictual translanguaging in the linguistic landscape of a divided city

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