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Contemporary urban spaces constitute complex linguistic landscapes where languages co-occur, compete for space, and appear in a variety of different forms and functions: Written and oral, official and subversive, informative and for theming purposes, functional and aesthetic. This particularly applies to multilinguistic, multicultural or touristic urban spaces, where different languages (sometimes visualized through different sign systems) mix. In this seminar we will use a combination of linguistic, cultural studies, and tourism studies approaches in order to examine selected examples of urban toponymy. The seminar - which will be run as a sister seminar to the eponymous course in cultural studies - will combine the study of the theoretical literature pertaining to urban linguistic landscapes with empirical data gathering excursions, including a field trips to Phantasialand. |
