This authoritative handbook examines the foundation, current and future trajectories of Linguistic Landscapes research globally, offering a summary of the field across three decades as well as its key methodological innovations. This volume is guided by fundamental questions: what is Linguistic Landscapes and how did it come about? What unique insights does it offer to foundational linguistic questions, such as what constitutes a sign, and how can we analyse it? What are the established and innovative methodologies embraced in Linguistic Landscapes Studies? How has research evolved to address contemporary issues in sociolinguistics? And finally, where is this dynamic discipline headed? To respond to these questions, this volume brings together scholars from the Global South and North, who address questions of identity, culture, affect and ideology. Throughout their chapters, authors tackle novel areas of research, including rural spaces, bodies, the Anthropocene and the algorithmic digital world. This handbook will be an essential resource for researchers and students in Sociolinguistics, Semiotics, Human Geography and Urban Studies.

Decenters the field by highlighting critical perspectives and innovative, new lines of research Brings together scholars from Global South and North traditions, working across rural as well as urban contexts Addresses questions of race, class, gender, age, ability, culture, affect and ideology

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Amiena Peck is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Chairperson of the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. She is also the Chairperson of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee. She has published journal articles and book chapters on Linguistic Landscapes, identity work, semiotics and autoethnography.

Gilles Baro is a lecturer of Sociolinguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa where he teaches sociolinguistics, decolonial linguistics, as well as language and technology studies. He has published journal articles and book chapters on the linguistic and semiotic landscapes of South Africa.

Quentin Williams is the Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) and Full Professor of Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. He is co-editor of the CMDR's journal Multilingual Margins and founder and Chairperson of the Societie virrie Advancement van Kaaps (SAK).

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Introduction: The Field of Linguistic Landscapes (Amiena Peck, Quentin Williams and Gilles Baro).- PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES.- 1. Linguistic landscapes and multilingualism (Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz).- 2. Place, Space, Identities in Linguistic Landscapes: global North and South perspectives (Robert Blackwood and Zoe Small).- PART TWO: METHODOLOGIES AND METHODS OF LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES.- 3. Material ethnography (Sibonile Mpendukana).- 4. Researching Protestscapes:A (Mediated) Discourse Approach (Dimitris Kitis).- 5. Semiotic Landscapes of Traumatic Memories (Tommaso Milani).- 6. Family Multilingualism and Linguistic Landscapes (Kelli Gonçalvez, Elizabeth Lanza and Christine Anthonissen).- 7. Digital Methodologies of Linguistic Landscapes (Jannis Androutsopoulos).- 8. Critical Autoethnography in Linguistics Landscapes (Mooniq Shaikjee and Amiena Peck).- PART THREE: MULTILINGUALISM IN URBAN AND RURAL LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES.- 9. Social Movement and Linguistic Landscape of Hope: Students Dismantling the Autocratic Government in the Mass Uprising of 2024 in Bangladesh (Shaila Sultana and Al Mahmud Rumman).- 10. Challenging the 'linguistic' in the linguistic landscapes of Limpopo and the Northern Cape province, South Africa (Lorato Mokwena and Mmatlou Malatji).- 11. Schoolscape from the regional Australia: Australian Aboriginal students as sign makers (Sender Dovchin, Rhonda Oliver and Lissy Jackson).- 12. Navigating Posthumanist Linguistic Landscapes: Agency, Affordances, and Archives (Jerry Lee and Jung-Hsien Lin).- 13. Shopping Lists as Linguistic Landscapes (Alistair Pennycook and Emi Otsuji).- 14. Bombs, Boxes, and Back Alleys: The Game of Graffiti in Braamfontein, Johannesburg's Semiotic Landscape (Angelique Tzanakakis).- PART FOUR: BODY, AFFECT AND MEMORY IN LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES.- 15. Affect and Linguistic Landscapes (Lionel Wee and Robbie Goh).- 16. Ethnic and Gender variation (Christian Go, Mie Hiramoto and Vincent Park).- 17. From A-Z from 1-100, everybody eat money at this Home Affairs: Skinscapes, power and Voids in Linguistic Citizenship (Jade Engel and Amiena Peck).- 18. Affect and Memory in Scandinavian Linguistic Landscapes (Guy Puzey).- 19. Vulnerability and the Semiotic Landscape (Mairead Moriarty and Stefania Tufi).- 20. Wearable texts and ideology (Gilles Baro and Will Amos).- PART FIVE: DECENTERING FUTURES OF SOCIAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS: INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY IN LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE RESEARCH.- 21. Asian adaptations (Religious spaces as situated practices) (Khoi Nguyen).- 22. Linguistic landscape in education: Applications and implications (Kristof Savski and Jigme Wangdi).- 23. Walking a km: Virtual and physical tours in Canadian schoolscapes (Gail Cormier).- 24. Online and offline diasporic spaces: From the perspective of linguistic landscape studies (Fengzhi Zhao).- 25. Queer Linguistic Micro-Landscape of a Queer Space in Taiwan: Rainbow Discourse in Taipei's Café Dalida (Joey Santos).- 26. Hanging out with words: Exploring (imagined) relationships between Black Lives Matter signs and people (Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi).