Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Elana Shohamy and Durk Gorter -- Linguistic landscaping and the seed of the public sphere / Florian Coulmas -- Prolegomena to a sociolinguistic theory of public signage / Bernard Spolsky -- A sociological approach to the study of linguistic landscapes / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Language economy and linguistic landscape / Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter -- A framework for the linguistic analysis of linguistic landscapes / Thom Huebner -- Language ecology and linguistic landscape analysis / Francis M. Hult -- Authorship in the linguistic landscape: a multimodal-performative view / David Malinowski -- A mapping technique and the linguistic landscape / Monica Barni and Carla Bagna -- What's in a name? Classification of proper names by language / Loulou Edelman -- Rules and regulations in linguistic landscaping: a comparative process / Peter Backhaus -- State ideology and linguistic landscape: a comparative analysis of (post)communist Belarus, Czech Republic and Slovakia / Mari�an Sloboda -- Language ideology and linguistic landscape: language policy and globalization in a regional capital of Ethiopia / Elizabeth Lanza and Hirut Woldemariam -- Local policy modeling the linguistic landscape / Silvia Dal Negro -- Languages on display: indexical signs, identities and the linguistic landscape of Taipei / Melissa L. Curtin -- Constructing national identity in mixed cities in Israel: Arabic on signs in the public space of upper Nazareth / Nira Trumper-Hecht -- Linguistic landscape and language awareness / Diane Dagenais [and others] -- Tourism and representation in the Irish linguistic landscape / Jeffrey Kallen -- Science and the linguistic landscape: a genre analysis of representational wall space in a microbiology laboratory / David I. Hanauer -- Linguistic landscapes and the transgressive semiotics of graffiti / Alastair Pennycook -- Linguistic landscape as an ecological arena: modalities, meanings, negotiations, education / Elana Shohamy and Shoshi Waksman.

This title explores linguistic landscape, which refers to the signs, directions, and other documentation that appear in the public space, and includes the interpretation of this 'visible language' in social, political, and economic contexts.