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"This multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes examines the role of linguistic and semiotic regimes in constructing landscape affect. Affect, as distinct from emotion, is object-oriented, and can be analysed in terms of structures of language and signs which operate on individuals and groups in specific spatial settings. Analyzing a series of landscape types - including "kawaii," "reverenced," "romance," "friendly," "luxury" and "digital" landscapes - Lionel Wee and Robbie B.H. Goh explore how language plays a crucial role in shaping affective responses to, and interactions with, space. This linguistic and semiotic construction of different spaces also involves cultural contestations and modulations in spatial responses, and the book offers an account of the different conditions under which "affective economies" gain or lose momentum"--

Introduction / Christopher Stroud -- Language rights and linguistic citizenship. Linguistic citizenship / Christopher Stroud -- Essentialism and language rights / Lionel Wee -- Commentary. unanswered questions: addressing the inequalities of majoritarian language policies / Stephen May -- Educating for linguistic citizenship. Affirming linguistic rights, fostering linguistic citizenship: a Cameroonian perspective / Blasius A. Chiatoh -- Education and citizenship in Mozambique: colonial and postcolonial perspectives / Feliciano Chimbutane -- Paths to multilingualism? reflections on developments in language-in-education policy and practice in East Timor / Estevæo Cabral and Marilyn Martin-Jones -- Language rights and "thainess": community-based bilingual education is the key / Suwilai Premsrirat and Paul Bruthiaux -- Commentary. linguistic citizenship: who decides whose languages, ideologies and vocabulary matter? / Kathleen Heugh -- Linguistic citizenship in resistance and participation. Citizenship theory and fieldwork practice in Sri Lanka Malay communities / Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim -- Linguistic citizenship in Sweden: resistance in a context of linguistic human rights / Tommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson -- Linguistic citizenship in post-Banda Malawi: a focus on the public radio and primary education / Gregory Kamwendo -- Making and shaping participatory spaces: resemiotization and citizenship agency in South Africa / Caroline Kerfoot -- Commentary. on participation and resistance / Ana Deumert

In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative notions of democratic and reflexive citizenship, it prompts readers to critically rethink how existing contemporary frameworks such as Linguistic Human Rights rest on disempowering forms of multilingualism that channel discourses of diversity into specific predetermined cultural and linguistic identities.

The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such conditions call for a new critique of global English, one that is sensitive to both the political economic conditions of globalization and speakers' local practices. Linking Bourdieu's theory of the linguistic market and his practice-based perspective with recent advances in sociolinguistics

English is deeply embedded within recent neoliberal projects of social reformation in South Korea, becoming a central topic of contention in the controversial educational reforms of the Lee Myung-bak regime (2008-2012). It figured prominently in various changes to the Korean education system pursued by the Lee administration under the name of greater competitiveness, such as increasing English immersion instruction in public schools and opening greater number of special purpose high schools where English language skills are highlighted. Lee's policies on the one hand aimed to cater to middle-c

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Chineseness as Competing Discourses -- 2. Chineseness in Diaspora: Multilingualism, Heteroglossia and Fluid Ethnicity -- 3. When 'Chineseness' is Not Preferred: Accounts of Academically Elite Students from China in Singapore's Schools -- 4. Joseonjok YouTubers: Translating Vernacular Chineseness in South Korea -- 5. Framing Chineseness and Indonesianness on the Periphery -- 6. Narrating the Future Self: Strategic Stylisation and Cosmopolitan Stancetaking in Chinese IELTS Preparation Classes -- 7. Coffee, Social Space and Middle-Class Romance: Customer Writings in an Independent Coffee Shop in China -- 8. The Authenticity, Cultural Authority and Credibility of Weibo Public Intellectuals -- 9. 'Foreigners' in One's Own Land: Analysing Touristic Representations of Chineseness in the New York Times -- 10. Commentary -- Index

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency