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Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic
Intense mobility of people and languages driven by tourism, which propels “cultural transformation of places” (Urry, 1995:2) across the world, is manifested in their linguistic landscapes through varying regimes of multilingualism. Linguistic landscapes, which render themselves for “visual consumpti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10060200/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37025645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.015 |
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author | Ferenčík, Milan Bariová, Denisa |
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description | Intense mobility of people and languages driven by tourism, which propels “cultural transformation of places” (Urry, 1995:2) across the world, is manifested in their linguistic landscapes through varying regimes of multilingualism. Linguistic landscapes, which render themselves for “visual consumption” (Urry, 2005), emerge from the sedimentation and synchronization of diachronic semiotic processes which index current societal developments. The recent period of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a noticeable impact on linguistic landscapes globally through the emergence of a noticeable and coherent layer of pandemic regulatory signage. In a longitudinal study covering the period between the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 to its decline in August 2022, we trace the implementation of regulatory measures in a highly frequented tourist region in Slovakia whereby the actors involved in the tourist industry implemented the official pandemic legislature aimed at preventing the spread of the disease. Our overall goal is to explore the management of “pandemic regulatory discourse”, i.e., how producers of regulatory signage manage multimodal resources to convey their authority and stance towards regulations, to legitimize regulatory measures, and to ensure compliance with them. The study is grounded in the theoretical-methodological approaches of ethnographic linguistic landscape studies, geosemiotics, sociolinguistics of globalization, sociopragmatics, and language management theory. |
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spelling | pubmed-100602002023-03-30 Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic Ferenčík, Milan Bariová, Denisa J Pragmat Article Intense mobility of people and languages driven by tourism, which propels “cultural transformation of places” (Urry, 1995:2) across the world, is manifested in their linguistic landscapes through varying regimes of multilingualism. Linguistic landscapes, which render themselves for “visual consumption” (Urry, 2005), emerge from the sedimentation and synchronization of diachronic semiotic processes which index current societal developments. The recent period of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a noticeable impact on linguistic landscapes globally through the emergence of a noticeable and coherent layer of pandemic regulatory signage. In a longitudinal study covering the period between the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 to its decline in August 2022, we trace the implementation of regulatory measures in a highly frequented tourist region in Slovakia whereby the actors involved in the tourist industry implemented the official pandemic legislature aimed at preventing the spread of the disease. Our overall goal is to explore the management of “pandemic regulatory discourse”, i.e., how producers of regulatory signage manage multimodal resources to convey their authority and stance towards regulations, to legitimize regulatory measures, and to ensure compliance with them. The study is grounded in the theoretical-methodological approaches of ethnographic linguistic landscape studies, geosemiotics, sociolinguistics of globalization, sociopragmatics, and language management theory. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023-06 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10060200/ /pubmed/37025645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.015 Text en © 2023 Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Ferenčík, Milan Bariová, Denisa Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10060200/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37025645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.015 |
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