This chapter aims to present the disciplinary points of departure, key assumptions, and
analytical tools of small stories research, a paradigm for narrative and identities analysis that …

This book investigates how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning.
Taking a narrative approach, it argues that dying, death, and mourning are shared online as …

Visible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs,
advertising billboards, street and place name signs, commercial logos and slogans, and …

The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-
established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this …

The study of the linguistic landscape (LL) focuses on the representations of languages on
signs placed in the public space and on the ways in which individuals interact with these …

This study adopts a cross-cultural perspective and investigates the ways in and the extent to
which the pragmatic choices made by the authors of COVID-19 signs announcing business …

At the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, the state quickly declared a nationwide
anti-Covid campaign. This article looks at how the rural space was transformed during this …

This paper investigates accounts justifying the closures of businesses found on public signs
in Athens and London during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data for the study was drawn …

This paper examines notices with a directive function that have been translated from Greek
into English in the public spaces of Thessaloniki. In particular, it explores the ways in which …

At first sight, the relation between linguistic landscape (LL) and digital communication seems
both odd and obvious. It seems odd if we consider digital communication a counterpart to LL …