"All we do has humans at its heart": Linguistic Landscape's Value in Scholarship and Pedagogy

Abstract

Four prominent Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholars reflect on the value of LL research and its utility in education. Elana Shohamy is a Professor Emerita in the Multilingual Education program at Tel Aviv Uni-versity. She has carried out extensive research on lan-guage policy, language testing, and LL, with a recent focus on injustices in the public space. David Mali-nowski is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University. His recent work focuses on education, language ped-agogy and learning, and intersections between these areas and LL. Amiena Peck is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the Uni-versity of the Western Cape. She has led innovative research in skinscapes, with a recent focus on au-toethnography. Robert Blackwood is a Professor of French Sociolinguistics at the University of Liverpool. His recent work examines processes of memorializa-tion in postcolonial Africa.