Semiotic creativities in and with space: binaries and boundaries, beware!

• Autores: Crispin Turlow
• Localización: International journal of multilingualism, ISSN 1479-0718, Vol. 16, Nº. 1, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Multilingual creativity and play in the semiotic landscape), págs. 94-104
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen
  • español

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    Article title: Semiotic creativities in and with space: Binaries and boundaries, beware! Authors: Crispin Thurlow Journal: International Journal of Multilingualism Bibliometrics: Volume 16, Number 01, pages 94 - 104 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2018.1500264 In this article, there were three cross-references to other articles of this special issue that needed place-holders. They are still marked as p.000.

    Corrections done:

    1. On p. 98, Järlehed’s article cross-reference has been updated to p. 71 from p. 000.

    2. On p. 101, Blackwood’s article cross-reference has been updated to to p. 16 from p. 000.

    3. The cross-reference, to Roux et al on p. 101 (gansta’ tattoos) has been deleted

  • English

    In the way of commentary, I offer a brief, summative reflection on the complex, multifarious nature of people’s semiotic engagements in and with space. Against the backdrop of three snapshot case studies, I suggest there are actually few neat boundaries to be drawn between the linguistic and non-linguistic, between the semiotic and the spatial, and between the creative and non-creative. These kinds of binarized ways of understanding linguistic-semiotic landscapes are neither helpful nor accurate. In a world of ‘context collapse’, we also need to attend to the ways creativity is often leveraged for its commercial indexicalities and possibilities, blurring the boundaries between play and work, and between communication and commerce. Similarly, we ought not to romanticise ‘grassroots’ and ‘vernacular’ actions as necessarily creative, reflexive or benign. It certainly behoves us to stay mindful of the political economies and class ideologies which shape semiotic landscapes and, indeed, our scholarly approaches to them.

  • English

    Correction:

    Article title: Semiotic creativities in and with space: Binaries and boundaries, beware! Authors: Crispin Thurlow Journal: International Journal of Multilingualism Bibliometrics: Volume 16, Number 01, pages 94 - 104 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2018.1500264 In this article, there were three cross-references to other articles of this special issue that needed place-holders. They are still marked as p.000.

    Corrections done:

    1. On p. 98, Järlehed’s article cross-reference has been updated to p. 71 from p. 000.

    2. On p. 101, Blackwood’s article cross-reference has been updated to to p. 16 from p. 000.

    3. The cross-reference, to Roux et al on p. 101 (gansta’ tattoos) has been deleted