Introduction

Visceral landscapes (the inside story)

Authors

  • Christopher Stroud Stockholm University, Sweden and University of the Western Cape Author
  • Amiena Peck University of the Western Cape Author
  • Quentin Williams University of the Western Cape Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.36224

Keywords:

Linguistic landscapes, visceral, Japan, Israel, Qatar, Delhi, Asmara

Abstract

In this Special Issue, we bring together a collection of papers that develops a reading of linguistic landscapes through viscerals, that is, the gut, the heart, the liver and the stomach. We invite linguistic landscape studies (LLS) to ponder the usefulness and utility of psychology/cognition below the neck as yet another important dimension for understanding linguistic landscapes, and as a way to refine our approach to embodiment in linguistic landscapes specifically and in sociolinguistics more generally. The contributions to this Special Issue, from Qatar to Japan, push our understanding of social formations and how such formations emerge out of visceral readings of semiotic landscapes.

Author Biographies

  • Christopher Stroud, Stockholm University, Sweden and University of the Western Cape

    Christopher Stroud is Senior Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CDMR). He is also Professor of Transnational Multilingualism at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University, Sweden.

  • Amiena Peck, University of the Western Cape

    Amiena Peck is a Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research interests include transnational cultural flows, space and culture and gender and identity. She is interested in extending the linguistic landscape through the engagement with the body, sense and virtual space.

  • Quentin Williams, University of the Western Cape

    Quentin Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His research interests include Hip Hop marginality, multilingual citizenship and performance. He is interested in extending linguistic landscape studies to include raciolinguistic landscapes.

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Peck, A., Stroud, C. and Williams, Q. (2018) Making sense of people and place in linguistic landscapes. London and New York: Bloomsbury Press.

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Stroud, C. and Jegels, D. (2014) Semiotic landscapes and narrations of place: Performing the local. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 228: 179–199.

Wetherell, M. (2015) Trends in the turn to affect: A social psychological critique. Body and Society 21(2): 139–166.

Wilson, E. (2015) Gut feminism. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

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Published

2019-07-17

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019): Special Issue: Visceral landscapes

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Articles

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How to Cite

Stroud, C., Peck, A., & Williams, Q. (2019). Introduction: Visceral landscapes (the inside story). Sociolinguistic Studies, 13(1), 7-14. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.36224