This study investigates the public communicative practices that constitute Vienna's Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square). The semiotic landscape on site and newspaper reports from 2015 to 2017 constitute bodies of knowledge about identity, history, and society. Conceptualizing them interdisciplinarily allows a number of temporal layers, spaces, and social positionings to become visible that are ultimately central components of societal constructions.

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Christian Bendl, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria.