Ethnographic Landscapes and Language Ideologies in the Spanish State

This book offers a multi-contributor view on the linguistic landscape research in Spain, focusing on both monolingual and bilingual regions of Spain with an interest in initiatives that promote social and linguistic justice without neglecting migrant and international languages in the territory. The agency of speakers is highlighted, as well as the processes of linguistic hybridization and identity claims that are created in Spain. This volume analyzes the semiotic meaning of different languages, varieties, and discursive practices in different Spanish contexts from an ethnographic, multimodal, and critical perspective. It observes how some languages, varieties, and repertoires are privileged in top-down institutional environments, whilst others respond to bottom-up initiatives that contemplate complex processes of identity construction in Spain, in order to decide whether or not a greater balance between majority and minority languages is achieved in different contexts and spaces nowadays.

Carla Amorós Negre is a PhD in Linguistics and Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca in the General Linguistics Area (Spanish Linguistics Department). Her main areas of scholarly interest include Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Multilingualism, Anthropological Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bremen. Gabriela Prego Vázquez is Associate Professor of General Linguistics at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. She belongs to the MetalingüisTICa research group at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Her fields of study are critical sociolinguistics, ethnography, and language education.

Introduction (Carla Amorós-Negre and Gabriela Prego Vázquez) 1) The Linguistic Landscape of Spain's Northern Regional Languages along the Camino del Norte Authors: Dr. Paul Sebastian, Appalachian State University 2) Ethnographies to localize (in)visibility and sociolinguistic inequalities: A Collaborative work in Higher education for exploring Bengali linguistic landscape in Madrid. Authors: Adil Moustaoui and Carlos Aliaño. Complutense University of Madrid 3) 'Languages around you': A pedagogical proposal for inclusive language education Authors: Camila Cárdenas Neira, Universidad Austral de Chile, Clara Molina and Luisa Martín Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 4) Linguistic representations of women in the Linguistic Landscape of Málaga. An ethnographic study (2016-2022) Author: Diana Esteba Ramos, Universidad de Málaga 5) Multilingualism in the Linguistic Landscape of the city of Granada Authors: Daniel M. Sáez , María Heredia; Irania Malaver, Luis Pablo-Núñez and Marcin Sosinski, Universidad de Granada 6) Identity and ideology in the university linguistic landscape - a multimodal study Authors: Izaskun Elorza and Vasilica Mocanu, University of Salamanca 7) Libertimenduak and Basque semiotic landscape: Transgressive carnival voices taken to the streets Authors: Agurtzane Elordui; Jokin Aiestaran; Samara Velte, University of the Basque Country) 8) An ethnography of Valencian language policy and planning though the linguistic linguistic landscape Authors: Carla Amorós-Negre, University of Salamanca and Karolina Grzech University of Valencia 9) Ideologies around Galicianness' commodification in the linguistic landscapes of marketplaces in Galicia. A Participatory Action Research with high school students Authors: Gabriela Prego Vázquez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Luz Zas Varela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Pablo Montaña Prieto Xunta de Galicia, Celtia Rey Brandón, Xunta de Galicia. Conclusion: New ways of analyzing landscapes (Gabriela Prego Vázquez and Carla Amorós Negre).