Posted by Victoria Williams on June 16, 2020
Hiring signs at Pappy's Grill & Sports Bar in Berkeley, CA. Photo: Bronwyn Harris As a BLC Fellow during the Spring of 2020, I worked on the development of a new, upper-division course regarding the presence of Spanish in urban signage. In this report, I will share the advances made in the process of designing…
Posted by Victoria Williams on September 9, 2019
Every two years, the Conference on Spanish in the US is held jointly with the Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. Scholars from fields related to the Spanish language, such as linguistics, sociology, anthropology, education, and legal studies, come together to share their research. Conference attendance and participation have continuously grown, signally high…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 10, 2015
Questioning Boundaries, Opening Spaces Advancing New Topics, Methods, and Applications Registration required. http://linguisticlandscape7.berkeley.edu/ Download LL7 program as a PDF May 7-9, 2015 Morning Plenaries: 2060 VLSB, Breakout sessions: 33 Dw, B4 Dw, B37 Dw. http://www.language.berkeley.edu/videos/LL7_1.mp4 May 7th Plenary http://www.language.berkeley.edu/videos/LL7_2.mp4 May 8th Plenary
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 15, 2014
Linguistic Landscape: A tool for documenting, analyzing and contesting societies and their complexities Elana Shohamy, Professor, Tel Aviv University Linguistic Landscape (LL) refers to languages displayed in public spaces on signs, advertisements, instructions, buildings, streets and billboards, etc. ‘Language’ within LL refers not only to written forms but also to other sources that interact in…
Malinowski, David
Volume 08 Issue 4
Building upon paradigms of language and languaging practices as local phenomena (Canagarajah, 2013; Pennycook, 2010, Pietikäinen & Kelly-Holmes, 2013), this paper narrates a teacher’s experience in an undergraduate seminar in applied language studies as an exploration in transdisciplinarity-as-localization. Taught by the author in 2012-2013, the seminar was intended as an introduction to the politics of societal multilingualism as visible in the linguistic landscape of public texts. As such, it relied upon ...