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Robert Blackwood , Elizabeth Lanza , & Hirut Woldemariam , Negotiating and contesting identities in linguistic landscapes . London : Bloomsbury , 2016, Pp. 261. Hb. £85.50.
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At the promising age of twenty, the study of linguistic landscapes (LL) has enjoyed four different workshops since the proposal of the notion by Rodrigue Landry and Richard Bourhis in 1997. The most recent one, held in Ethiopia in 2012, embraced a wide range of geographical, social, and modal dimensions with a focus on how identity is constructed, negotiated, and contested in various LL cases. Stemming from the contributions to the workshop, this collection explores not only the general issue of multilingualism and multimodality in public spaces, but also a specific concern about identity as a dynamic construct, which is situated in and in constant interaction with linguistic, social, and cultural factors.
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