Within the nascent discipline of linguistic landscape studies, scholars of linguistics, particular languages, and other social sciences systematically analyze the formation and essential
aspects of today's urban spaces using language as a key marker. They cover linguistic landscape multi-lingualisms, top-down power and reactions, benefits of a linguistic landscape, perceptions
of passers-by, and multi-culturalism in a linguistic landscape. Specific topics include, marking France's public space: empirical surveys of regional heritage languages in two provincial
cities; responses to the linguistic landscape in Memphis, Tennessee as an urban space in transition; life in the Garden of Eden: the naming and imagery of residential Hong Kong; the
marginalization of Chinese in the linguistic and social landscapes of Chinatown in Washington, DC; and language and inter-language in urban Irish and Japanese linguistic landscapes. Annotation
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