This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the award-winning The Granite G

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate

This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. -- Bac

Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of the Spanish-speaking world filling a gap in th

Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the len