Understanding Multilingualism of/in Globalized Public Semioscapes: A Course Proposal
Milan Ferenčík
University of PrešovAbstract
Our proposal for an academic course concerns geocultural globalization and the associated flows of ideas, meanings, values and semiotic resources, including languages, which are manifested in particular configurations of (peri-)urban linguistic landscapes. Within the course students are engaged in tracing synchronies and diachronies of social processes underlying linguistic landscapes of their own lived environments. As the main theoretical-methodological approaches the course integrates linguistic landscape studies, geosemiotics, sociolinguistics of multilingualism, sociolinguistics of globalization, and English as a lingua franca. The aims of the course are to enable students to understand the semiotic processes within the semioscapes of public spaces with which they interact on a daily basis and, ultimately, to contribute to the development of critically thinking and emancipated students.Keywords:
geocultural globalization, linguistic landscape analysis, multilingualism, pragmatics, walking ethnographyReferences
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