Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak
Abstract: This article examines the role played by signs in the public space of two socio-economically stratified residential neighbourhoods of Ghent (Belgium) during the first Covid-19 outbreak in 2020. On the basis of fieldwork, we explore the potential of public signs as a resourceful strategy for communicating solidarity and support and the discursive construction of a community affected by this crisis. We show that in times of lockdown and social distancing, the residential linguistic landscape in both neighbourhoods became strategically appropriated by local inhabitants to communicate wi... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Schlagwörter: | Linguistics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26527673 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1963760151162165141 |