Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics

Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual perspective. From a museum at Victoria Falls in Zambia to a Japanese-American internment in Arkansas, this book probes how the medium of the communication of memories affirms social orders across the globe. Applying linguistic landscape...

This collection represents contemporary perspectives on important aspects of research into the language in the public space, known as the Linguistic Landscape (LL), with the focus on the negotiation and contestation of identities. From four continents, and examining vital issues across North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, scholars with notable experience in LL research are drawn together in this, the...

Critical Sexuality Studies (CSS) and Lavender Languages/Linguistics (LLL) are leading modes of inquiry in two different fields of sexuality studies. In this edited collection, chapters reveal how these can be combined to produce a new approach to analysing language use, sexuality and gender, and discourse on authority and power. The book demonstrates how together LLL and CSS iterate each other...

This interdisciplinary edited volume combines linguistic and memory approaches to study how people attribute meaning to the past. It includes contributions by linguists who consider memory studies and its theories, and by memory studies scholars without linguistic background who look at sociolinguistic methods and concepts. The book is divided into three parts and includes case studies from countries including Belgium,...