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Semiotic timescapes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2022

Michelle M. Lazar Open the ORCID record for Michelle M. Lazar [Opens in a new window]
Michelle M. Lazar*
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National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Address for correspondence: Michelle M Lazar National University of Singapore Department of English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies Block AS5, 7 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 ellmml@nus.edu.sg
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Abstract

In linguistic/semiotic landscape (LSL) studies, overall, time and temporalities have occupied a curious space between visibility and invisibility, resulting in time and temporalities being treated as an optional, additive, subordinate, or separate dimension in the linguistic and semiotic study of place-making. The term semiotic timescape serves as a heuristic concept which endeavours to centre time and its imbrication with space/place, with an explicit focus on the semiosis of ‘temporalized place-making’. The five articles in this special issue highlight the ‘complex and multiplex’ dimensions of time (Adam 2008) interconnected with spaces/places, as important aspects in understanding social realities and practices, via entanglements with multimodal meaning-making, materialities, embodiment, and politics of social actors and communities. (Semiotic timescapes, interconnectedness of time and space, complexities and multiplexities, multimodality, materialities)*

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Language in Society , Volume 51 , Special Issue 5: Semiotic Timescapes , November 2022 , pp. 735 - 748
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I am grateful to the anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments and suggestions. Thanks, also, to Jessica Velásquez Urribarrí for reading an earlier draft and for offering useful suggestions.

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