Robert Blackwood is Professor of French Sociolinguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Unn Røyneland is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at the University of Oslo, Norway.

List of Figures

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List of Contributors

Preface by Marilyn Martin-Jones

Acknowledgements

Introduction Robert Blackwood and Unn Røyneland

Part I - Rethinking the Context

1. Language Policy: Taking Stock in a Changing Context

Li Wei and Helen Kelly-Holmes

2. Language, Pedagogy, and Active Participant Engagement: Gaze in the Multilingual Landscape

Elana Shohamy and Alastair Pennycook

Part II - Interactions, Ideologies, and Identities

3. Contesting Stereotypes: Language, Body and Belonging - Northern and Southern Perspectives

Rajend Mesthrie, Toril Opsahl and Unn Røyneland

4. Narratives, Identities, and Experiences in the Discourse of Migrants

Anna De Fina, Anne Golden and Ingebjørg Tonne

5. Securing Understanding in a Second Language: Communication of Rights in Investigative Interviews in the USA and Norway

Pawe¿ Urbanik and Aneta Pavlenko

Part III - Linguistic Landscapes

6. English in Norwegian and Ethiopian Linguistic Landscapes: Returning to Symbolic Language Use

Robert Blackwood, Janne Bondi Johanessen and Binyam Sisay Mendisu

7. "High Culture at Street Level": Oslo's Ibsen Sitat and the Ethos of Egalitarian Nationalism

Adam Jaworski and Kellie Gonçalves

8. Small Shop Signs in Cape Town and Hamburg: Situated Semiosis and Semiotic Creativity in North and South

Jannis Androutsopoulos and Ana Deumert

9. Global and Local Forces in Multilingual Landscapes: A Study of a Local Market

Durk Gorter, Jasone Cenoz, and Karin van der Worp

Part IV - Concluding Remarks

10. Besides Hegemonic Multilingualism: Making Space for Little Stories and Complex Biographies

Crispin Thurlow

Index

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