Stefania Tufi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1272224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefania Tufi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefania |
| FAMILY NAME | Tufi |
| SIGNATURE | TUFI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9592-9995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Borderscapes – Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to the Border
This Special Issue is part of a wider project on Borderscapes supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), whose main objective is to generate new understandings of borders as everyd
Sharing the vulnerable self
The article focuses on Guardia Piemontese/La Gàrdia, an Occitan-speaking town in Calabria (Southern Italy), where the semiotic landscape is constructed through modalities of material historiography revolving around an episode of brutal violence dating back to the sixteenth century. The public documentation of the episode through both verbal signs and other semiotic objects contributes to the everyday construction of vulnerability. This process is…
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self
This case study draws on evidence gathered in a minority setting in north-eastern Italy where Ladin, the heritage language, is central to the construction of past and present narratives of heroism and resistance. The article aims to contribute to the development of new debates within this journal as facilitated by different disciplinary perspectives, and in line with recent discussions about the status of language as heritage, which question the …
Hybrid places
This article is about adaptations to the regimentation of public and private living through the reorganisation of domestic space and time routines a year into changeable Covid-related restrictions. The discussion is based on narratives and audio-visual artefacts generated by participants from 20 UK households through the methodology of photovoice and that articulate domestic-related boundary-making processes and forms of space hybridisation in th…
Situated spatialities and the linguistic landscape
This longitudinal study investigates the linguistic construction of place and belonging (i.e. of situated spatialities) in Piazza Garibaldi, Naples, a square populated by both local and migrant groups who have experienced continuous displacement and relocation due to urban regeneration projects. The observation of the locality over 10 years has allowed the identification of changes that point to a dynamic role of the linguistic landscape (LL) as …
Liminality, heterotopic sites, and the linguistic landscape
This paper is an investigation into the construction of Venice as a heterotopia – another place – characterised by a liminal linguistic landscape (LL) against a background of mass tourism seen as the enactment of different tourist subjectivities converging onto a peculiarly transnational space. The first part of the study contextualises mass tourism and outlines the concepts of liminality, deterritorialisation and heterotopia. The second part pre…
From linguistics to semiotics in the study of public signage and space
Shared places, unshared identities
Language as it appears in the public space is at the centre of investigations into linguistic landscapes. Language agents immersed in a given geo-historical context contribute to the construction of spatialised meaning and to the transformation of space into place. The visibility of a language in a linguistic landscape does not just index a reality, i.e. the use of one or more languages within a community, but contributes to the symbolic construc…
Language Ideology and Language Maintenance
Sardinian is spoken on Sardinia, the second largest of Italy's islands, and is one of a set of minority languages which are officially recognized according to Italian law. In recent years there have been attempts to codify Sardinian. These were presented as an important step towards language maintenance and revitalization at a time of visible decline in the use of, and competence in, the local varieties in competition with the national language, …
Trademarks in the linguistic landscape
In the last few decades, investigations into the linguistic landscape (LL) have sought to analyse written language practices as they are observable in public space. Whilst the LL analysis of language choice in given contexts has opened a host of possibilities for scientific enquiry in the field, the methodologies employed in the collection and categorisation of written signs is still controversial. This paper addresses a specific aspect of the qu…
Auxiliary distribution in the Castelli Romani dialects
The Castelli Romani dialects display a distribution of perfective auxiliaries which is similar to other middle-Italian dialects and different from standard Italian. Data gathered from local speakers in Marino revealed interesting combinations related to reflexive transitive constructions and pronominal agreement. The relatively free occurrence of these forms suggests that a change is in progress. A comparison with similar forms present in 1920s d…
Trademarks in the linguistic landscape
In the last few decades, investigations into the linguistic landscape (LL) have sought to analyse written language practices as they are observable in public space. Whilst the LL analysis of language choice in given contexts has opened a host of possibilities for scientific enquiry in the field, the methodologies employed in the collection and categorisation of written signs is still controversial. This paper addresses a specific aspect of the qu…
Situated spatialities and the linguistic landscape
This longitudinal study investigates the linguistic construction of place and belonging (i.e. of situated spatialities) in Piazza Garibaldi, Naples, a square populated by both local and migrant groups who have experienced continuous displacement and relocation due to urban regeneration projects. The observation of the locality over 10 years has allowed the identification of changes that point to a dynamic role of the linguistic landscape (LL) as …
Language Ideology and Language Maintenance
Sardinian is spoken on Sardinia, the second largest of Italy's islands, and is one of a set of minority languages which are officially recognized according to Italian law. In recent years there have been attempts to codify Sardinian. These were presented as an important step towards language maintenance and revitalization at a time of visible decline in the use of, and competence in, the local varieties in competition with the national language, …
Auxiliary distribution in the Castelli Romani dialects
The Castelli Romani dialects display a distribution of perfective auxiliaries which is similar to other middle-Italian dialects and different from standard Italian. Data gathered from local speakers in Marino revealed interesting combinations related to reflexive transitive constructions and pronominal agreement. The relatively free occurrence of these forms suggests that a change is in progress. A comparison with similar forms present in 1920s d…
Trademarks in the linguistic landscape
In the last few decades, investigations into the linguistic landscape (LL) have sought to analyse written language practices as they are observable in public space. Whilst the LL analysis of language choice in given contexts has opened a host of possibilities for scientific enquiry in the field, the methodologies employed in the collection and categorisation of written signs is still controversial. This paper addresses a specific aspect of the qu…
Shared places, unshared identities
Language as it appears in the public space is at the centre of investigations into linguistic landscapes. Language agents immersed in a given geo-historical context contribute to the construction of spatialised meaning and to the transformation of space into place. The visibility of a language in a linguistic landscape does not just index a reality, i.e. the use of one or more languages within a community, but contributes to the symbolic construc…
Language Ideology and Language Maintenance
Sardinian is spoken on Sardinia, the second largest of Italy's islands, and is one of a set of minority languages which are officially recognized according to Italian law. In recent years there have been attempts to codify Sardinian. These were presented as an important step towards language maintenance and revitalization at a time of visible decline in the use of, and competence in, the local varieties in competition with the national language, …
From linguistics to semiotics in the study of public signage and space
Liminality, heterotopic sites, and the linguistic landscape
This paper is an investigation into the construction of Venice as a heterotopia – another place – characterised by a liminal linguistic landscape (LL) against a background of mass tourism seen as the enactment of different tourist subjectivities converging onto a peculiarly transnational space. The first part of the study contextualises mass tourism and outlines the concepts of liminality, deterritorialisation and heterotopia. The second part pre…
Situated spatialities and the linguistic landscape
This longitudinal study investigates the linguistic construction of place and belonging (i.e. of situated spatialities) in Piazza Garibaldi, Naples, a square populated by both local and migrant groups who have experienced continuous displacement and relocation due to urban regeneration projects. The observation of the locality over 10 years has allowed the identification of changes that point to a dynamic role of the linguistic landscape (LL) as …
Hybrid places
This article is about adaptations to the regimentation of public and private living through the reorganisation of domestic space and time routines a year into changeable Covid-related restrictions. The discussion is based on narratives and audio-visual artefacts generated by participants from 20 UK households through the methodology of photovoice and that articulate domestic-related boundary-making processes and forms of space hybridisation in th…
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self
This case study draws on evidence gathered in a minority setting in north-eastern Italy where Ladin, the heritage language, is central to the construction of past and present narratives of heroism and resistance. The article aims to contribute to the development of new debates within this journal as facilitated by different disciplinary perspectives, and in line with recent discussions about the status of language as heritage, which question the …
Sharing the vulnerable self
The article focuses on Guardia Piemontese/La Gàrdia, an Occitan-speaking town in Calabria (Southern Italy), where the semiotic landscape is constructed through modalities of material historiography revolving around an episode of brutal violence dating back to the sixteenth century. The public documentation of the episode through both verbal signs and other semiotic objects contributes to the everyday construction of vulnerability. This process is…
Borderscapes – Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to the Border
This Special Issue is part of a wider project on Borderscapes supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), whose main objective is to generate new understandings of borders as everyd
Linguistics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Semiotics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Linguistic landscape (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)