Sökning: "linguistic landscape"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden linguistic landscape.
1. “Speak your own language” : On tensions regarding Finnish in Sweden
Sammanfattning : In this compilation dissertation I examine social tensions that relate to the Sweden Finnish minority and the Finnish language in Sweden. The dissertation is based on critical applied linguistics and I employ various related theoretical notions in the included articles. LÄS MER
2. Nämnda ting men glömda : Ortnamn, landskap och rättsutövning
Sammanfattning : The dissertation describes the names related to justice and places in the landscape where justice was administered, applying an interdisciplinary perspective with place names as the chief source material.One aim is to collect and describe place names in Skåne designating or indirectly associated with meeting places and districts of the court, and to study the named places. LÄS MER
3. From Words to Voids : Absencing and Haunting in Crimean Semiotic Landscapes
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to contribute to the body of ethnographically-oriented semiotic landscape research by addressing linguistic and non-linguistic signs in the landscapes of contemporary Crimea. It is based on research conducted in the region back in 2017 and 2019 after the Russian annexation but before the full-scale war against Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022. LÄS MER
4. Manufacturing Multilingualisms of Marginality in Mozambique : Exploring the Orders of Visibility of Local African Languages
Sammanfattning : Colonial era language policies and practices in Mozambique sought to render native African languages (and their speakers) invisible in public space. This ‘order of (in)visibility’ was later adopted by many African states, including Mozambique, by choosing the ex-colonial language as the one and only official language and prohibiting or ignoring the use of African languages in the interest of so-called national unity. LÄS MER
5. Loco ubi dicitur... “La toponomastica di Vallebona e dintorni” : Un territorio di confine tra Liguria e Provenza
Sammanfattning : As a special part of our cultural heritage, toponyms have been handed down orally from generation to generation for centuries or more at the place where they were coined, recalling events, activities and knowledge. Especially where written documentation is relatively young, place names offer a way to reach further back into the past. LÄS MER