TY - JOUR
AU - Amos, Will
AB - Lang Policy (2015) 14:191–193 DOI 10.1007/s10993-013-9299-2 BOOK REVIEW Christine He´lot, Monica Barni, Rudi Janssens and Carla Bagna (eds.): Linguistic Landscapes, Multilingualism and Social Change Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2012, 348 pp, Hb £44.80, ISBN 978-3-631-61716-8 Will Amos Received: 3 October 2013 / Accepted: 5 October 2013 / Published online: 17 October 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 This book contributes to the expanding body of research dealing with the analysis of language in public spaces. It addresses this from five perspectives—language policy, dissent, linguistics, literacy, and multilingualism—and, as such, collates some of the most far-reaching academic interests currently associated with the linguistic landscape (LL). The section on language policy opens with a diachronic study of public signs in Rome and Prato, in which Barni and Vedovelli provide a useful insight as to how the LL can reflect political reform and social change, after which Janssens discusses language management in the Brussels periphery. Belgium is also the site of Ben-Rafael and Ben-Rafael’s examination of the public space as a ‘buffer zone’ between the State and private spheres, and Dunlevy extends the focus on minority languages by discussing the relationship between Galician and Castilian in contemporary north-western Spain. Whereas for 
TI - Christine Hélot, Monica Barni, Rudi Janssens and Carla Bagna (eds.): Linguistic Landscapes, Multilingualism and Social Change
JF - Language Policy
DO - 10.1007/s10993-013-9299-2
DA - 2013-10-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/christine-h-lot-monica-barni-rudi-janssens-and-carla-bagna-eds-Y0L9EhSHY4
SP - 191
EP - 193
VL - 14
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -