Sociolinguistic landscape: politics, diversity and migration in the public space
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In this paper, I discuss the concept of Linguistic Landscape. Combining ethnographic and linguistic methods, I try to provide a more complete picture of two diverse neighbourhood: in a suburbian town of Warsaw, and in a village inhabited by descendents of Polish migrants in Brazil. I argue that the analysis of both the material dimensions of the public space observed while walking through the neighbourhood and the ethnographic encounters, enables us to understand the visibility and invisibility of the various groups better. It also allows us to observe formal and informal communication practices and recognize the limited space for expressing one’s linguistic and ethnic diversity, which is available to those inhabiting the municipality. Moreover, I argue that the analysis of written communication is insufficient, because some groups are present more audially than visually.
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