Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies : : Exploring Urban, Rural and Educational Spaces / / ed. by Ari Sherris, Elisabetta Adami.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• MitwirkendeR: Adami, Elisabetta,; Archer, Arlene,; Aworo, Samua Mango,; Banda, Felix,; Bezemer, Jeff,; Björkvall, Anders,; Blommaert, Jan,; Bradley, Jessica,; Freeman, Diane Larsen-,; García, Ofelia,; Goodchild, Samantha,; Jimaima, Hambaba,; Kress, Gunther,; Mokwena, Lorato,; Moore, Emilee,; Perera, Nirukshi,; Schaefer, Paul,; Sherris, Ari,; Weidl, Miriam,
• HerausgeberIn: Adami, Elisabetta,; Sherris, Ari,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Encounters
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book is the beginning of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Radical Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• 1. Unifying Entanglements and Dynamic Relationalities: An Introduction
• 2. Communicating Beyond Diversity: A Bricolage of Ideas
• 3. Multimodal Sign-Making in Today’s Diversity: The Case of Leeds Kirkgate Market
• Material Sign-Making in Diverse Contexts: ‘Upcycled’ Artefacts as Refracting Global/Local Discourses
• 5. Semiotic Remediation of Chinese Signage in the Linguistic Landscapes of Two Rural Areas of Zambia
• 6. Resemiotisation and Creative Production: Extending the Translanguaging Lens
• 7. Gesture and Translanguaging at the Tamil Temple
• 8. Translanguaging Practices in the Casamance, Senegal: Similar but Different – Two Case Studies
• 9. The Paradox of Translanguaging in Safaliba: A Rural Indigenous Ghanaian Language
• 10. Heterarchic Commentaries
• Index