The Ordinary Semiotic Landscape of an Unordinary Place: Spatiotemporal Disjunctures in Incheon's Chinatown

Autor/inn/en	Lee, Jerry Won; Lou, Jackie Jia
Titel	The Ordinary Semiotic Landscape of an Unordinary Place: Spatiotemporal Disjunctures in Incheon's Chinatown
Quelle	In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 16 (2019) 2, S.187-203 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1479-0718
DOI	10.1080/14790718.2019.1575837
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Semiotics; Chinese; Language Planning; Neighborhoods; Korean; Code Switching (Language); Buildings; Asian Culture; Architecture; Fairy Tales; Museums; Dining Facilities; English (Second Language); Recreational Facilities; Language Usage; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Semiotik; China; Chinesen; Sprachwechsel; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Koreanisch; Building; Gebäude; Architektur; Fairy tale; Fairytale; Fairytales; Fairy-tale; Fairy-tales; Märchen; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Mensa; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Freizeiteinrichtung; Sprachgebrauch; Korea; Republik
Abstract	This article examines the semiotic landscape of the Chinatown in Incheon, South Korea. Using the geosemiotic framework as a heuristic guide, we analyze how the spectacle of Chinatown is constituted through spatial, linguistic, semiotic, and material resources, and find that the unordinariness of the place is contingent on and emerges through its juxtaposition with ordinary space, practice, and language use. We suggest this apparent paradox can be understood through the process of scaling, during which signs and practices that might have been considered quotidian become monumentalised and ritualised when they are transported across timescales and spatial scales. Incheon's Chinatown then affords an opportunity to understand the semiotic and material production of 'unordinariness' through 'ordinariness'. These collective spatiotemporal disjunctures or juxtapositions reveal unexpected but nonetheless crucial intersections among language, semiotics, and nationness. (As Provided).
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