Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes

It is commonly argued that the proliferation of urban writing known as linguistic landscapes represents “a thoroughly contemporary global trend” (Coupland, 2010: 78). The purpose of this paper is to show that linguistic landscapes are by no means modern phenomena and to draw on our shared interest i...

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Main Authors: Pavlenko, Aneta, Mullen, Alex
Format: Article
Published: John Benjamins Publishing 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44674/