Gabriella Modan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gabriella Modan is involved.
Journal
Articles
2023 Semiotics of a Covid landscape: Tactical urbanism in a pandemic The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes, Järlehed, Johan, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal (eds.), pp. 226–246 | Article
This paper brings together urban planning and linguistic perspectives to examine the semiotic landscape of a Washington, DC ‘streatery’ in the context of the intersecting public health- and place-based economic crises unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing from Garay-Huamán and… read more
2022 Signs at work: New labor relations and structures of feeling in Washington, D.C.’s Covid landscape The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19, Lou, Jackie Jia, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck (eds.), pp. 281–298 | Article
We use a geographically informed notion of landscape and Williams’ (1977) framework structure of feeling to examine ‘closed’, masking, and social distancing signs on businesses in the Washington, DC central-city neighborhood of Adams Morgan. We argue that the semantic content and discursive… read more


