Language, Space and Cultural Play - Couverture souple

Wee, Lionel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108459137 ISBN 13 : 9781108459136

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes examines the role of linguistic and semiotic regimes in constructing landscape affect. Affect, as distinct from emotion, is object-oriented, and can be analysed in terms of structures of language and signs which operate on individuals and groups in specific spatial settings. Analysing a series of landscape types - including 'kawaii', 'reverenced', 'romance', 'friendly', 'luxury' and 'digital' landscapes - Lionel Wee and Robbie B. H. Goh explore how language plays a crucial role in shaping affective responses to, and interactions with, space. This linguistic and semiotic construction of different spaces also involves cultural contestations and modulations in spatial responses, and the book offers an account of the different conditions under which 'affective economies' gain or lose momentum.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Lionel Wee works on language policy, sociolinguistics and new Englishes. His publications include The Singlish Controversy (Cambridge, 2018), The Language of Organizational Styling (Cambridge, 2015), Markets of English (2012) and Language without Rights (2011).

Robbie B. H. Goh works at the nexus of semiotics, cultural studies and narratology. His publications include Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora: Abjected Identities, Evangelical Relations, and Pentecostal Visions (2018), Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (2005) and Christianity in Southeast Asia (2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108459137
• ISBN 13: 9781108459136
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 218
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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