This course focuses on the growing interdisciplinary field of Linguistic Landscapes (LL), which traditionally analyses “language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings”, usually as they occur in urban spaces.
More recently, LL research has evolved beyond studying only verbal signs into the realm of semiotics, thus extending the analytical scope into the multimodal domain of images, sounds, drawings, movements, visuals, graffiti, tattoos, colours, smells as well as people.
Students will be informed about multiple aspects of modern LL research including an overview of different types of signs, their formal features as well as their functions.
2nd Edition | June 24-28, 2024
Faculty
Kurt Feyaerts, KU Leuven
Richard Toye, University of Exeter
Matteo Basso, Iuav University of Venice
Geert Brône, KU Leuven
Claire Holleran, University of Exeter
Eliana Maestri, University of Exeter
Michela Maguolo, Independent researcher
Luca Pes, Venice International University
Paul Sambre, KU Leuven
1st Edition | June 26-30, 2023
Faculty
Kurt Feyaerts, KU Leuven
Claire Holleran, University of Exeter
Eliana Maestri, University of Exeter
Michela Maguolo, Centro studi ClassicA Iuav
Luca Pes, Venice International University
Paul Sambre, KU Leuven
Richard Toye, University of Exeter
