Title:

Textual Urban Space in the Light of Media-linguistic Studies

Creator:

Makowska, Magdalena

Publisher:

Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2020

Subject and Keywords:

linguistic landscape ; multimodality ; textual urban space

Abstract:

Discussions concerning contemporary communication usually centre around communication that is mediallyintermediated.However, it appears that also urban space may constitute an interesting source of research inspirationsince it is full of urban texts which assume diversified functions in it. Research into the so-calledlinguistic landscape focuses on the verbal layer of the text. In the meantime, the majority of urban textspertain to multimodal texts, making use not only of words, but also images. In the article an attempt wasmade at describing the multimodal linguistic landscape of Cracow. The collected research material was subjectto analysis taking into consideration the composition of particular texts as well as tasks performed bythem, which became the basis for the creation of a profile of urban texts in structural and functional terms.

Relation:

Socjolingwistyka

Volume:

34

Start page:

113

End page:

130

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

10.17651/SOCJOLING.34.7

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

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