37.3679, Books: Reading Graffiti: Martin and McGlinchey (2026)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-37-3679. Fri 06 Nov 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.3679, Books: Reading Graffiti: Martin and McGlinchey (2026)

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Valeriia Vyshnevetska
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Daniel Swanson
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Daniel Swanson <daniel at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 02-Nov-2026
From: Arianne Hill [Arianne.Hill at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Reading Graffiti: Martin and McGlinchey (2026)


Title: Reading Graffiti
Subtitle: The Semiotics of Street Art
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/reading-graffiti-9781350475281/

Author(s): Chris William Martin and Diana McGlinchey

Hardback.
9781350475281
£95.00

Abstract:

This book examines the language of the varied types of graffiti and
street art while uncovering the contemporary uses and purpose behind
our need to tag out our existence through letters and images on
buildings and city blocks.
Graffiti is as much about our need for art as expression-providing
voice for the voiceless-as it is our need for beauty, social
criticism, or civil disruption in our environments. This book takes an
approach to understanding the ways in which graffiti and street art
has changed the way we look at our environments, our social
institutions, and ourselves.
The book is informed by an immersive literature review, research at
the Museum of Graffiti in Miami, Florida, research, and conversations
with local street artists practicing in genres like stickers/slaps,
lettering, murals, miniatures/installations, culture jamming and ad
busting. It is also informed by fieldnotes of street art tours around
the world to explore the semiotic landscape of locales and the impact
on the local street art cultures.
Through the polysemy of the word “graffiti” we see cultural history
and modern-day actors, graffiti becomes a thing and a practice. It is
human and it is historical.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List, a U.S. 501(c)(3) not for profit organization:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Australian Linguistics Society https://als.asn.au/Home

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/language-and-linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Brill https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en

Edinburgh University Press http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

MDPI Languages https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com

SIL International Publications http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

University of Toronto Press https://utppublishing.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-37-3679
----------------------------------------------------------