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Multilingual Audio Announcements: Power and Identity

open access: yes, 2018
This research project examined the process and tension of constructing a Taiwanese identity, drawing on the theoretical framework of linguistic landscape (LL) and soundscape studies. LL studies analyse languages on signs in the public space to reveal the
Hu, Ying-hsueh, Ying-Hsueh Hu
core   +1 more source

Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic landscape and repertoires in times of diversity: A situation in perspective

open access: yesCalidoscópio, 2016
This work discusses the dinamic and increasing reality in terms of linguistic and cultural contacts in the city of Juiz de Fora (Brazil), in (super)diversity times.
Mariana Schuchter Soares   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic landscapes in der Innerschweiz: Dialekt, Toponyme und heraldische Zeichen als Ausdruck von Raumzugehörigkeit

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2017
This article explores the linguistic landscapes of four towns in Central Switzerland. The analysis focuses on linguistic features such as words written in dialect or toponyms and on some features from other semiotic codes like heraldic signs or ...
Marina Petkova
doaj   +1 more source

Traditional Visual Language: A Geographical Semiotic Analysis of Indigenous Linguistic Landscape of Ancient Waterfront Towns in China

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
This paper investigates the characteristics of the indigenous linguistic landscape and the features of traditional visual language under the conceptual framework of Geo-semiotics, which has been generally overlooked in the literature.
Rong Sheng, John Buchanan
doaj   +1 more source

Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape Underwater, Underwater Landscapes: Kangaroo Island Diving Site Names as Elements of the Linguistic Landscape

open access: yes, 2017
A linguistic and cultural analysis of diving site names and their role as toponyms is absent in scuba diving tourism research and landscape research. This paper argues for using place-names for the identification of historical landscape features and that
Nash, Joshua
core   +1 more source

Shadow Infrastructures of Labour: A Case Study of Generative AI Use in Victorian Child Protection Practice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly entering workplaces, yet their use in frontline human services remains largely undocumented and weakly regulated. Drawing on an investigation into a child protection worker's informal use of ChatGPT, this article provides insight into how GenAI is already shaping ...
Joel Robert McGregor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Different languages, different landscapes? Exploring linguistic differences in landscape conceptualizations

open access: yesOpen Linguistics
The goal of the research was to assess whether landscape conceptualization systematically differed across European languages in the context of the linguistic relativity debate.
Mácha Přemysl   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

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