Article published In:
Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of CommunityEdited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras
[Linguistic Landscape 6:2] 2020
► pp. 109–127
This special issue explores how multilingual (and semiotic) landscapes relate to constructions of community. With the present introduction we aim to embed theoretical notions of ‘community’ into the study of Linguistic Landscapes (henceforth LL). We first discuss how the notion of ‘community’ has been applied in previous LL research, and then introduce some relevant theoretical notions of ‘community’, which, in the final part, we seek to position in relation to an agenda for the study of LL.