Leonie Gaiser

List of John Benjamins publications in which Leonie Gaiser is involved.

Title

Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community

Edited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.

Articles

Gaiser, Leonie and Yaron Matras 2020 Defining the position of ‘community’ in the study of linguistic landscapes Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community, Gaiser, Leonie and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 109–127 | Article

This special issue explores how multilingual (and semiotic) landscapes relate to constructions of community. With the present introduction we aim to embed theoretical notions of ‘community’ into the study of Linguistic Landscapes (henceforth LL). We first discuss how the notion of ‘community’… read more

Matras, Yaron and Leonie Gaiser 2020 Signage as event: Deriving ‘community’ from language practice Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community, Gaiser, Leonie and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 213–236 | Article

Our aim in this paper is to propose a framework to analyse the relationship between language choice on signs in multilingual environments, place, and notions of ‘community’. We focus on an interpretation of the goals pursued by sign owners, exploring how linguistic (and non-linguistic) resources… read more