Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.

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MARWAN ABU GHAZALEH-MAHAJNEH Tel Aviv University/Beir Berle College, Israel JOKIN AIESTARAN University of the Basque Country, Spain LARISSA ARONIN, University of Haifa, Israel ROBERT BLACKWOOD University of Liverpool, UK KARA D. BROWN University of South Carolina, USA JASONE CENOZ University of the Basque Country, Spain PAOLO COLUZZI University of Brunei Darussalam LLORENÇ COMAJOAN University of Vic/University of Barcelona, Spain JEROEN DARQUENNES University of Namur, Belgium MICHAEL HORNSBY Politechnika Koszali?ska/Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, Poland ETHAN LONG University of Richmond, USA MÁIRÉAD MORIARTY University of Limerick, Ireland/University of Jyväskylä, Finland SEBASTIAN MUTH University of Greifswald, Germany MUIRIS Ó LAOIRE Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland ANETA PAVLENKO Temple University, Philadelphia, USA GUY PUZEY University of Edinburgh, Scotland HANNI SALO University of Jyväskylä, Finland ELANA SHOHAMY Tel Aviv University, Israel LUCIJA IMI?I? Universityof Zagreb, Croatia MARIÁN SLOBODA Charles University Prague, Czech Republic ESZTER SZABÓ-GILINGER University of Szeged, Hungary STEFANIA TUFI University of Liverpool, UK DICK VIGERS University of Southampton, UK

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List of Contributors Overview Map of Cases Discussed in this Book Studying Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape; H.F.Marten , L.Van Mensel & D.Gorter PART I: LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES AND LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE 'Latgalian is not a Language': Linguistic Landscapes in Eastern Latvia and how they Reflect Centralist Attitudes; H.F.Marten Transgression as the Norm: Russian in Linguistic Landscape of Kyiv, Ukraine; A.Pavlenko Minority Semiotic Landscapes: An Ideological Minefield?; M.Hornsby & D.Vigers Language Ideological Debates in the Linguistic Landscape of an Irish Tourist Town; M.Moriarty Linguistic Landscape as a Tool for Interpreting Language Vitality: Arabic as a 'Minority' Language in Israel; E.Shohamy & M.A.Ghazaleh-Mahajneh PART II: LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE AND LANGUAGE POLICY Policies vs. Non-policies: Analysing Regional Languages and the National Standard in the Linguistic Landscape of French and Italian Mediterranean Cities; R.Blackwood & S.Tufi Two-way Traffic: How Linguistic Landscapes Reflect and Influence the Politics of Language; G.Puzey The Revitalization of Basque and the Linguistic Landscape of Donostia-San Sebastian; D.Gorter , J.Aiestaran & J.Cenoz All is Quiet on the Eastern Front? Language Contact along the French-German Language Border in Belgium; L.Van Mensel & J.Darquennes PART III: THE DISTRIBUTIVE APPROACH TO LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE The Linguistic Landscape of Three Streets in Barcelona: Patterns of Language Visibility in Public Space; E.Long & L.ComajoanThe Linguistic Landscapes of Chi?in?u and Vilnius: Linguistic Landscape and the Representation of Minority Languages in Two Post-Soviet Capitals; S.Muth Multilingual Societies Versus Monolingual States: the Linguistic Landscapes in Italy and Brunei Darussalam; P.Coluzzi Using Linguistic Landscape to Examine the Visibility of Sami Languages in the North Calotte; H.Salo PART IV: FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE Discourse Coalitions For and Against Minority Languages on Signs: Linguistic Landscape as a Social Issue; E.Szabo-Gilinger , M.Sloboda , L.Simi?i? & D.Vigers The Linguistic Landscape of Educational Spaces: Language Revitalization and Schools in Southeastern Estonia; K.D.Brown The Material Culture of Multilingualism; L.Aronin & M.O Laoire Minority Languages through the Lens of the Linguistic Landscape; L.Van Mensel , H.F.Marten & D.Gorter Index