Special issue. Linguistic landscape. Meanings, appropriations and urban rhetorics

Abstract

Studies on linguistic landscape are gaining ground among those interested in sociolinguistics issues in territory. The research team “Cordoban linguistic landscape: signs, appropriations and identities in public space”, based at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, emerged from a joint initiative to investigate the relationship between language and space. urban based on the formulation of a series of questions: What is written on the streets of the city? Who are the authors? Who are these signs addressed to? What languages ​​are used in this writing in the urban landscape? What are these linguistic signs designed for? Do other languages ​​appear besides Spanish? What place does oral language – soundscape – have in the city? These questions have given rise to important reflections that we systematize in a series of articles that put linguistic features in dialogue with social meanings. According to these approaches, we have been able to observe a diversity of writings and sounds that take the streets, the walls, the common space by storm to account for issues linked to the political, social and sensitive framework of the inhabitants of this city.