Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies

Exploring Urban, Rural and Educational Spaces

Ari Sherris, Elisabetta Adami (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2018
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78892-191-6 (ISBN)

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This book is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity.

This book is the beginning of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Radical Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity, and its social semiotic and situated character. It relocates current debates in linguistics and in multimodality, as well as conceptions of centers/margins, by re-conceptualizing communicative practice through investigation of indigenous/oral communities, street art performances, migration contexts, recycling artefacts and signage repurposing. The book takes an innovative approach to both the form and content of its scholarly writing, and will be of interest to all those involved in interdisciplinary thinking, researching and writing.

Ari Sherris is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education in the College of Education and Human Performance at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA. His research interests include ethnography, complexity theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality and translanguaging. Elisabetta Adami is University Academic Fellow in Multimodal Communication at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests include multimodality, social semiotics, meaning, intercultural communication, digital communication, semiotics of space and semiotic/linguistic landscape.

Foreword by Gunther Kress & Jeff Bezemer

Chapter 1. Ari Sherris and Elisabetta Adami: Unifying Entanglements and Dynamic Relationalities: An Introduction

Chapter 2. Jan Blommaert, Ofelia García, Gunther Kress and Diane Larsen-Freeman: Communicating Beyond Diversity: A Bricolage of Theories

Chapter 3. Elisabetta Adami: Multimodal Sign-making in Superdiverse Contexts: The Case of Leeds Kirkgate Market

Chapter 4. Arlene Archer and Anders Björkvall: Material Sign-making in Diverse Contexts: ‘Upcycled’ Artefacts as Refracting Global / Local Discourses

Chapter 5. Felix Banda, Hambaba Jimaima and Lorato Mokwena: Semiotic Remediation of Chinese Signage in the Linguistic Landscapes of Two Rural Areas of Zambia

Chapter 6. Jessica Bradley and Emilee Moore: Resemiotisation and Creative Production: Extending the Translanguaging Lens

Chapter 7. Nirukshi Perera: Gesture and Translanguaging at the Tamil Temple

Chapter 8. Samantha Goodchild and Miriam Weidl: Translanguaging Practices in the Casamance, Senegal: Similar but Different: Two Case Studies

Chapter 9. Ari Sherris, Paul Schaefer and Samua Mango Aworo: The Paradox of Translanguaging in Safaliba, a Rural Indigenous Ghanaian Language

Chapter 10. Ari Sherris and Elisabetta Adami: Heterarchic Commentaries

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Erscheinungsdatum	23.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Encounters
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78892-191-7 / 1788921917
ISBN-13	978-1-78892-191-6 / 9781788921916
Zustand	Neuware