Complexity perspectives on linguistic landscapes

Autor:	Josep Soler-Carbonell
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	060201 languages & linguistics Computer science 0602 languages and literature 05 social sciences Scalar (mathematics) 050602 political science & public administration Semiotics Multilingualism 06 humanities and the arts Linguistics 0506 political science Linguistic landscape
Zdroj:	Linguistic Landscape. An international journal. 2:1-25
ISSN:	2214-9961 2214-9953
DOI:	10.1075/ll.2.1.01sol
Popis:	Linguistic landscape studies (LLS) have become popular tools to investigate multilingual settings; yet they often lack theoretical elaboration. This paper tries to contribute to filling this gap by combining the postulates of complexity theory with the concept of ‘scale’. Taking Tallinn as a case study, I conceptualise scales as nodes of complexity, dynamically produced and reproduced by the inter-connection of different agents in interaction. The results show a significant degree of language heterogeneity in Tallinn’s LL, but one that adopts different forms in different places, something that indexes the diverse types of mobility in those settings. What appears as multilingual messiness becomes logically coherent when we look at how different semiotic resources are mobilized to co-construct different scalar frameworks. In conclusion, it is argued that a scalar analysis informed by a complexity perspective can be beneficially exploited for theoretical and methodological purposes in LLS.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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