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Review
Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces
Edina Krompák, Víctor Fernández-Mallat and Stephan Meyer
(eds) (2021)
Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 312
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Reviewed by Sanita Martena and Heiko F. Marten
Affiliations
Rēzekne Academy of Technologies, Latvia
sanita.martena@rta.lv
heiko.marten@rta.lv
In today’s linguistic circles, it is stating the obvious that the Linguistic Landscape
(LL) approach has become a remarkable success story since the frst studies
were conducted, the frst workshops organised, and the frst collections of papers
published about 15 years ago. During these years, Linguistic Landscape stud-
ies have moved from mostly quantitative to more qualitative approaches and
multi-method research. The feld has experienced an expansion into semiotic
landscapes and all different types of ‘-scapes’ in a variety of geographical areas
and academic and social contexts which have been collected and discussed not
least in edited volumes. This started with Gorter’s 2006 ground-breaking intro-
ductory collection and travelled via more specifc collections on, for example,
semiotic landscapes (Jaworski and Thurlow, 2010), minority languages in the
LL (Gorter, Marten and Van Mensel, 2012), sociolinguistic studies (Laitinen and
Zabrodskaja, 2015) to relatively recent collections by Pütz and Mundt (2018) or
Malinowski and Tuf (2020), just to mention a few.
One important strand in this development is the connection between LL stud-
ies and education. Early infuential individual studies and educational projects
(e.g., Cenoz and Gorter, 2008; Lazdiņa and Marten, 2009; Sayer, 2010; Brown,
2012) were succeeded by collections of articles (e.g., Marten and Saagpakk,