31.2011, Books: Language, Space and Cultural Play: Wee, Goh

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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:06:59
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language, Space and Cultural Play: Wee, Goh

 


Title: Language, Space and Cultural Play 
Subtitle: Theorising Affect in the Semiotic Landscape 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/language-space-and-cultural-play-theorising-affect-semiotic-landscape?localeText=United+States&locale=en_US&query=&remember_me=on 


Author: Lionel Wee
Author: Robbie B. H. Goh

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108569026 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108472203 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108472203 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

This multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes examines the role of
linguistic and semiotic regimes in constructing landscape affect. Affect, as
distinct from emotion, is object-oriented, and can be analysed in terms of
structures of language and signs which operate on individuals and groups in
specific spatial settings. Analysing a series of landscape types - including
'kawaii', 'reverenced', 'romance', 'friendly', 'luxury' and 'digital'
landscapes - Lionel Wee and Robbie B. H. Goh explore how language plays a
crucial role in shaping affective responses to, and interactions with, space.
This linguistic and semiotic construction of different spaces also involves
cultural contestations and modulations in spatial responses, and the book
offers an account of the different conditions under which 'affective
economies' gain or lose momentum.

List of figures
1. Introduction
2. Theorising affect in the semiotic landscape
3. Kawaii in the semiotic landscape
4. Reverencing the landscape
5. Romancing the landscape
6. 'Friendly places'
7. The affective regime of luxury and exclusivity
8. Affecting the digital landscape
9. Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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