The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown by Jackie Jia Lou - 9781783095629

The Linguistic Landscape of ChinatownA Sociolinguistic Ethnography\nAuthor(s): Jackie Jia Lou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Multilingual Matters\nISBN-13: 9781783095629, 978-1783095629\nSynopsis\nThis book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this areas shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors and analysis of community meetings and public policies, it provides an in-depth study of the production and consumption of linguistic landscape as a cultural text. Following a geosemiotic analysis of shop signs, it traces the multiple historical trajectories of discourse which shaped the bilingual landscape of the neighbourhood. Turning to the s.