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The framing of the linguistic landscapes of Persian shop signs in Sydney

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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:29 authored by Dariush Izadi, Vahid Parvaresh
This study provides an interpretive perspective on the linguistic landscape (LL) of ethnic Persian shops in the city of Sydney, Australia. Photographic data and ethnographic observations demonstrate how linguistic and cultural displays on ethnic Persian shops are organized in different frames which are driven by local symbolic markets. These frames are investigated through an analysis of linguistic and semiotic resources drawn on these ethnic premises. The study also illustrates that the trajectory of the Persian language and its semiotic resources as mediational tools frame the collective identity of the sign producers (social actors) and symbolic and cultural means that are activated in the LL of such ethnic shops. These framing devices promote minority languages, Persian in specific, as valuable resources and commodities in the multicultural context of Sydney, and point to the possible impact of those resources on the local political economy of language. In addition, the findings reinforce the view that patterns of multilingualism are not static and are influenced by a number of factors such as cultural, economic and linguistic resources which individuals and officials use in the public space.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

2

Issue number

2

Page range

182-205

Publication title

Linguistic Landscapes

ISSN

2214-9961

Publisher

John Benjamins

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-11-07

Legacy creation date

2016-11-04

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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