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Book SynopsisEliezer and Miriam Ben-Rafael investigate world-cities’ linguistic landscapes about the intermingling influences of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism through conjunctions of their respective codes - lingua francas, national languages and ethnic vernaculars. These analyses lead to the elaboration of a paradigm of multiple globalizations.
Trade Review",,, the book is valuable for providing an overarching framework of societal influences upon the LL of world-cities. Scholars will also benefit immensely from the authors' summaries of a wealth of sociological theory bearing upon modernity, globalisation, multiculturalism and transnational diasporas, and nationhood." - Robert A. Troyer, Western Oregon University, in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development “This volume is undoubtedly a very solid contribution to the rather new field of LL (Linguistic Landscapes): on the one hand because of its sound grounding in sociological theory on globalization and multiculturalism, and on the other, for the promising theoretical model Ben-Rafael and Ben-Rafael have elaborated of a LL paradigm for multiple globalizations.” - Christine Hélot, University of Strasbourg, in: Linguistic Landscape 6/1 (2020)
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Investigating Multiple Globalizations 1 Linguistic Landscapes 2 World-cities and Globalization 3 Multiculturalism 4 The National Principle 5 Research Questions and the Theoretical Argument 6 In Search of Singularities 2 Methodologies and Research Objectives 1 The Research Settings 2 Collecting and Analyzing Data 3 Summing Up 3 Berlin 1 Introduction 2 Globalization in Downtowns 3 Galeries Lafayette 4 A Residential Middle-Class Neighborhood 5 A Turkish-Speaking Area 6 A Mixed Turkish-Arab Area 7 Where Arabic-Speakers Dominate 8 Conclusion 4 Paris 1 Introduction 2 The Champs Elysées 3 Chinatown 4 Jewish Sarcelles-Pletzel 5 Islam at the Goutte d’Or 6 Conclusion 5 Brussels 1 A Hub of Contradictions 2 Downtown Brussels 3 French-Speaking Neighborhoods 4 Flemish Areas 5 Arab Muslim Neighborhoods 6 The sub-Saharan Quarter 7 The Asian Quarter 8 The Turkish Neighborhood 9 The European Quarter 10 Conclusion 6 London 1 Introduction 2 Central London’s LL 3 Golders Green 4 Chinatown in Soho 5 London’s Little India 6 Conclusion 7 Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1 Introduction 2 Downtowns 3 Ramat Hasharon 4 Bnei Brak 5 Old Rosh Ha’Ayin 6 Ajami 7 The Central Bus Station 8 Conclusion 8 Downtowns Around the World 1 Introduction 2 Tokyo-Yokohama 3 New Delhi 4 Addis Ababa 5 Three cases – not too far away 9 An LL Paradigm for Multiple Globalizations 1 The Sociological Perspective 2 Configurations in Downtowns 3 Residential Areas 4 Ethno-cultural Quarters 5 Empirical Conclusions: Answering the Research Questions 10 Emblems of Singularities 1 Introduction 2 The Wall of Berlin: The East Gallery 3 Paris under-the-ground 4 Brussels’ Comic Strip Murals 5 London’s Double-Decker Buses 6 Tel Aviv: the Florentin neighborhood 7 Conclusion 11 General Conclusions 1 A sociology of Linguistic Landscape 2 From Modernity to Multiple Modernities 3 Globalization Instead of Modernity? 4 Multiculturalism and Transnational Diasporas 5 The Pertinence of the Nation 6 Multiple Globalizations Appendix 1: Indexes of Globalization Appendix 2: Major Areas of Destination for Contemporary Migration Flows Appendix 3: Number of Civil Servants per Population (Selected European Countries) Bibliography Index
