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Signs, billboards and graffiti: a social spatial discourse in a regenerated council estate.

Altenberger, Iris

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Iris Altenberger



Abstract

Residents within a council housing area in Stirling, Scotland, which is undergoing regeneration, took photos for an auto-driven photo-elicitation study. There was limited guidance on what images to capture. Residents were simply invited to focus on the neighbourhood. An unexpected finding was the significance participating residents gave to the linguistic and semiotic landscape such as signs, billboards and graffiti. Within the interview, it became apparent that the participants considered the signs as part of the expression of spatial social discourse. Therefore, the billboards and signs placed there by the powerful social actors such as developers were understood and scrutinised for their claims and the lived reality of residents. Also, graffiti was understood in context with the social-spatial dialectic of being inscribed within a community with an underlying sectarian discourse.

Citation

ALTENBERGER, I. [2022]. Signs, billboards and graffiti: a social spatial discourse in a regenerated council estate. Social semiotics [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2090832

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 14, 2022
Online Publication Date Jun 27, 2022
Deposit Date Jun 1, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Social semiotics
Print ISSN 1035-0330
Electronic ISSN 1470-1219
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2090832
Keywords Linguistic and semiotic landscape; Regenerated; Council housing; Auto-driven photo elicitation; Territorial stigmatisation; Council housing estates; Semiotics; Linguistic environments; Urban signage; Graffiti
Public URL https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1677900

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