The study of Linguistic Landscapes (LL) is fundamentally concerned with examining the landscape formed through a particular multimodal use of language in and with relation to a given sociolinguistic context. The landscape around a particular linguistic and sociolinguistic language use could include but not limited to various levels of representation such as a review of languages spoken or written in diverse geographical areas. We are interested in the nexus of the material and non-material, the linguistic and non-linguistic, the physical and metaphysical, the body and spirit, and all sorts of modes that define and drive the human condition to convene under a dynamic, ever-changing online resource. Under this backdrop, entries will be divided in initial taxonomies of four distinct categories, themes, or sections on how linguistic landscapes are portrayed or conceptualized in relation to 1) bodies, 2) different geo/political spaces, 3) cultural practices, and 4) as a printed text on surfaces or modes of representation. We invite contributions for entries based on empirical data related to any aspect of linguistic landscapes, although English can be the primary area of study and write-up, we welcome the work of linguistic landscapes conducted in multicultural sites and in multiple languages. Some of the suggested entries can be:
- Linguistic Landscapes
- Schoolscapes
- Domesticscapes
- Homescapes
- Textscapes
- Artscapes
- Skinscapes
- Identityscapes
- Streetscapes
- Cityscapes
- Soundscapes
- Visualscapes
- Bodyscapes
- Ruralscapes
- Urbanscapes
- Digitalscapes
- Prisonscapes
- Folk-linguistic Landscapes
- Virtual Linguistic Landscapes
- Digital Linguistic Landscapes
For more information and/or to submit to this section, please contact the section editors, Yecid Ortega and Sultan Turkan : postlinguisticlandscapes @ gmail.com
About the editors:
Yecid Ortega is an Applied Linguistics and TESOL lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom). He finished his doctoral program in Language and Literacies Education (LLE) with a collaborative specialization in Comparative International, and Development Education (CIDE) at OISE – University of Toronto (Canada). He has over 20 years of international experience (Colombia, the USA, Canada and the UK) in language education and plurilingualism. He explores the linguistic and cultural lived experiences of migrant communities and the ways in which they assert their identities while adapting the receiving societies. He currently focuses on alternative forms of research including but not limited to arts-based, creative and critical methodologies to understand one’s place in the world.
Sultan Turkan is a senior lecturer in Bilingual Education at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on ways to improve educational practices for multilingual immigrant children. Her research is guided by the view of language as a resource (rather than a deficiency) for effectively teaching immigrant learners. She has also conducted research on the validity and fairness of assessments administered to these learners and their teachers and investigated ways to provide opportunities for immigrant children to demonstrate their funds of knowledge in assessments and classrooms. Dr. Turkan has over two decade of teaching experience in higher education and foreign/second language contexts with culturally and linguistically diverse groups.