Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual perspective. From a museum at Victoria Falls in Zambia to a Japanese-American internment in Arkansas, this book probes how the medium of the communication of memories affirms social orders across the globe.
Applying linguistic landscape approaches to a wide variety of monuments and memorials from around the world, this book identifies how multilingualism (and its absence) contributes to the inevitable partiality of public memorials. Using a number of different methods, including multimodal discourse analysis, code preferences, interaction orders, and indexicality, the chapters explore how memorials have the potential to erase linguistic diversity as much as they can entextualize multilingualism. With examples from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America, this volume also examines the extent to which multilingual memories legitimize not only specific discourses but also individuals, particular communities, and ethno-linguistic groups – often to the detriment of others.
Edited by:
Dr Robert Blackwood,
Dr John Macalister
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 621g
ISBN: 9781350071254
ISBN 10: 1350071250
Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 17 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction, Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool, UK) and John Macalister (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Part I: Monuments 1. Forging a Nation: Commemorating the Great War, John Macalister (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 2. Montréal’s Black Rock: The Forgotten Grave of the Irish Typhus Victims, Patricia Lamarre (Université de Montréal, Canada) 3. La fraternité franco-marocaine Remembered in France and in Morocco: Multilingual Memorials and Patrimoine National, Dawn Marley (University of Surrey, UK) Part II: Museums 4. Multilingual Memories: Artefactual Materiality of Erasure and Downscaling in Linguistic and Semiotic Landscapes of Livingstone Town, Zambia, Hambaba Jimaima (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Felix Banda (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 5.‘Twa Tongues’: Modern Scots and English in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool, UK) and James Costa (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, France) 6. Multiple ‘Ways of Telling’ in the LL at the WWII Japanese American Internment Camp Memorial Cemetery in Rohwer, Arkansas, Rebecca T. Garvin (Arkansas Tech University, USA) and Yasushi Onodera (Arkansas Tech University, USA) 7. Sarajevo’s War Childhood Museum: A Social Semiotic Analysis of “Combi-Memorials” as Spatial Texts, Maida Kosatica (University of Bern, Switzerland) Part III: Memories 8. Remembering in Order to Forget: Scaled Memories of Slavery in the Linguistic Landscape of Rio de Janeiro, Branca Falabella (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 9. Cast in Iron: Remembering the Past in Penang, John Macalister (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Teresa Ong (Griffith University, Australia) 10.Instances of Emplaced Memory: The Case of Alghero/L’Alguer, Stefania Tufi (University of Liverpool, UK) 11. Appropriation and Re-Appropriation: The Memorial as a Palimpsest, Christian Bendl (University of Vienna, Austria) Conclusion, Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool, UK) and John Macalister (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Index
Robert Blackwood is Professor in French Sociolinguistics at the University of Liverpool, UK. John Macalister is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Reviews for Multilingual Memories: Monuments, Museums and the Linguistic Landscape
This is such an important book in sociolinguistics and beyond. Wonderful! Remembering and forgetting are not simply individual cognitive processes. They are historically and politically situated and part of defining who we are now and how we form societies. The book offers a wealth of fascinating insights into this process. * David Machin, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, OErebro University, Sweden * This powerful and profoundly important volume explores the `realms of memory' through the multiple lenses of memory, memorialization and multilingualism. Focusing on a range of `memory places' across the world, the authors interrogate the public political language of memorials and the extent to which multilingualism is deployed, silenced or even fetishized. * Nkululeko Mabandla, Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa *
