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dc.contributor.authorPesch, Anja Maria
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-05T22:07:55Z
dc.date.available2021-07-05T22:07:55Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-20
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the construction of multilingualism in the semiotic landscapes of two kindergartens, one in Norway and one in Germany. <i>Semiotic landscape</i> is here understood as the visual linguistic environment, including various semiotic resources, such as texts, symbols, drawings or pictures. In kindergarten, semiotic landscapes construct and transform views on languages and multilingualism as well as pedagogical aims. The data material for this study was collected during ethnographic fieldwork. Using a nexus analytic approach the paper explores which discourses on multilingualism are constructed in the semiotic landscapes, whose voices are represented and which interaction order they involve. While the semiotic landscape in the Norwegian kindergarten constructs the kindergarten as multilingual, the semiotic landscape in the German kindergarten points to a predominance of German. However, a closer analysis also shows practices that erase linguistic diversity and devalue multilingualism in the Norwegian kindergarten and practices that encourage multilingualism in the German kindergarten. An important part of this is the oral communication practice which at times contrasts the overall discourses in the semiotic landscapes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPesch AM. Semiotic landscapes as constructions of multilingualism–a case study of two kindergartens. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 2021:1-19en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1914281
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1350293X.2021.1928725
dc.identifier.issn1350-293X
dc.identifier.issn1752-1807
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/21745
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalEuropean Early Childhood Education Research Journal
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Applied linguistics: 012en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Anvendt språkvitenskap: 012en_US
dc.titleSemiotic landscapes as constructions of multilingualism – a case study of two kindergartensen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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