semiotics – Language on the Move

Linguistic landscapes Next Gen Literacies

Dialoguing through prohibitions and transgressions

Editor's note: Mathematicians, such as the present author, continue to use the academic "we," even if there is only one author. As regular readers will know, that's not how we…

Rami LuistoMay 13, 2026

Linguistic landscapes

Local culture mirrored in dog signs

Dog signs are an ubiquitous part of the semiotic landscape in many parts of the world. This article delves into signs regulating dogs in a small town in Finland. Image…

Rami LuistoJanuary 28, 2025

Linguistic landscapes

Visit to Abrahamic Family House

*** Anna Dillon and Sarah Hopkyns *** Figure 1: Sarah (in black) and Anna (in purple) at Abrahamic Family House As friends and fellow sociolinguists, we, Anna and Sarah, have…

Sarah HopkynsJanuary 17, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Linguistic landscapes

Language makes the place

Welcome back to another year of research blogging on and about language on the move! We kick off 2022 with a new episode in our Chats in Linguistic Diversity. In…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 17, 2022

Research reflections

The promise of interdisciplinarity

Professor Bob Hodge When I was a PhD student, I read two books in Discourse Analysis, which were to become fundamental to my understanding of the field, namely Social Semiotics…

Ingrid PillerJune 14, 2012

Dialoguing through prohibitions and transgressions

Local culture mirrored in dog signs

Visit to Abrahamic Family House

Language makes the place

The promise of interdisciplinarity

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