Date: 02-Aug-2006 From: Kathryn King <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Linguistic Landscape: Gorter (Ed)
Title: Linguistic Landscape
Subtitle: A New Approach to Multilingualism
Published: 2006
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
The book contains a collection of studies of the linguistic landscape - the use of written language on signs in the public sphere - in 5 different societies: Israel, Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands (Friesland) and Spain (Basque Country). All contributions focus on multilingualism in the social context of the major cities.