Monographic lecture 09-N15-WM-22
Semiotic landscapes
Public space is richly “furnished” with objects, images, writings which all together create and
shape semiotic landscapes (Jaworski & Thurlow 2010), not independently of political,
cultural, geographical, economic (and many other) contexts. Semiotic landscapes reflect how
we communicate, react to and interact with the world. The aim of this course is to provide
basic background to semiotics and theories of signs, and then to linguistic and semiotic
landscapes. Then we will focus on chosen topics which will provide examples of semiotic
landscapes and illustrate “how interlocutors engage with semiotic material” (Banda 2015:96).
Possible topics are: signs in everyday culture, activist acts and the city, image/sound
semiotics, graffscapes, tattoos, memoryscapes and street art.
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