Jackie Jia Lou
Biographic Data
| ID | 649860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jackie Jia Lou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jackie Jia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lou |
| SIGNATURE | LOU J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6931-3756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Jones, Rodney H.
Rodney H. Jones (b.1959) is currently the Associate Head of the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, where he has been teaching since 1995 (home page: http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/∼enrodney ). Jones received a BA in English Literature from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas in Fayetteville, an MPhil in English from City University of Hong Kong, and a PhD in Lingu…
Scaling silence: Discursive distancing in the linguistic landscape of London Chinatown during Covid-19
This article employs a multi-scalar approach to examine silences in the linguistic landscape of London Chinatown during Covid-19. Defining silence paradigmatically, it explores the relative absence of pandemic signage, in contrast to their proliferation in other urban spaces. A total of 462 pandemic signs were photographed during four field trips to Chinatown, complemented with observations of its online linguistic landscape as represented in soc…
Localising cosmopolitanism in place talk: Semiotic landscape as stance object
Sociolinguistic research has begun to critique the generalised view of cosmopolitanism as indexed by the use of global and non-local languages and urge us to explore its variety and complexity as situated and dialogical practices. This article answers this call by examining how cosmopolitanism is localised in place talk. Drawing from a larger ethnographic study of language, space, and cosmopolitanism in Shanghai, the analysis focuses on how parti…
The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19
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Wordswewear: Mobile texts, expressive persons, and conviviality in urban spaces
In this programmatic paper, we approach #wordswewear, referring to the wide range of linguistic inscriptions on clothing and accessories, as part of the embodied, mobile semiotic landscape of the city. Our main objective is to reflect on (1) the conditions that gave rise to the apparent pervasiveness of #wordswewear in urban spaces, and (2) the extent to which they constitute a form of public, urban discourse. Drawing on an emergent collection of…
The ordinary semiotic landscape of an unordinary place: Spatiotemporal disjunctures in Incheon's Chinatown
This article examines the semiotic landscape of the Chinatown in Incheon, South Korea. Using the geosemiotic framework as a heuristic guide, we analyze how the spectacle of Chinatown is constituted through spatial, linguistic, semiotic, and material resources, and find that the unordinariness of the place is contingent on and emerges through its juxtaposition with ordinary space, practice, and language use. We suggest this apparent paradox can be…
Spaces of consumption and senses of place: A geosemiotic analysis of three markets in Hong Kong
While spaces of consumption have been extensively studied in geography, recent sociolinguistic research on metrolingual markets, semiotic landscapes, and translanguaging space present new ways to examine the linguistic, semiotic, and sensory aspects of these prosaic spaces. Integrating these perspectives in a geosemiotic framework, this paper examines the interactions in three markets in Hong Kong which have emerged as important social spaces for…
TheLinguistic Landscape of Chinatown: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography
This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors and analysis of community meetings and public poli…
Shop sign as monument: The discursive recontextualization of a neon sign
Ethnographic studies of linguistic landscape have shed light on the complex processes in which signage is designed, created, perceived, and interpreted. This paper highlights the role of public discourse in such processes by tracing how the neon sign of a restaurant in Hong Kong ironically reached monumental status after its removal. Expanding the geosemiotic framework with the theory of recontexualization, it examines the shifting meanings of th…
Itineraries of protest signage: Semiotic landscape and the mythologizing of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
The pro-democracy occupation of three commercial and retail areas in Hong Kong that lasted over two months in the fall of 2014 – known as the Umbrella Movement – created a myth of Utopia (Barthes 1984 [1954]). In this paper, we track the itineraries (Scollon 2008) and resemiotizations (Iedema 2003) of the protest signage to show how they mythologized the Movement by “branding space”, “regulating and disciplining actions”, and “unifying the voice …
The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts
Book synopsis: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. The collection contri…
Chinatown in Washington, DC: The bilingual landscape
Originated as a new approach to multilingualism, research on linguistic landscapes has typically focused on the varieties of language inscribed on the surface of a particular place. As this original conceptualization and its associated methodology have not always sufficed to capture the sociolinguistic complexities of contemporary urban environments, recent researchers have called for a more contextualized approach to linguistic landscapes. Drawi…
Chinatown transformed: Ideology, power, and resources in narrative place-making
Combining textual, visual, and ethnographic approaches to discourse, this article examines a variety of resources employed in the narrative construction of Washington, DC’s Chinatown in a billboard advertisement that de-ethnicizes the neighborhood. Analysis of the linguistic resources of narrative structure, comparative reference, and lexical cohesion reveals how the gentrification of Chinatown is constructed as a positive transformation driven b…
Spaces of consumption and senses of place: A geosemiotic analysis of three markets in Hong Kong
While spaces of consumption have been extensively studied in geography, recent sociolinguistic research on metrolingual markets, semiotic landscapes, and translanguaging space present new ways to examine the linguistic, semiotic, and sensory aspects of these prosaic spaces. Integrating these perspectives in a geosemiotic framework, this paper examines the interactions in three markets in Hong Kong which have emerged as important social spaces for…
Itineraries of protest signage: Semiotic landscape and the mythologizing of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
The pro-democracy occupation of three commercial and retail areas in Hong Kong that lasted over two months in the fall of 2014 – known as the Umbrella Movement – created a myth of Utopia (Barthes 1984 [1954]). In this paper, we track the itineraries (Scollon 2008) and resemiotizations (Iedema 2003) of the protest signage to show how they mythologized the Movement by “branding space”, “regulating and disciplining actions”, and “unifying the voice …
The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts
Book synopsis: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. The collection contri…
The ordinary semiotic landscape of an unordinary place: Spatiotemporal disjunctures in Incheon's Chinatown
This article examines the semiotic landscape of the Chinatown in Incheon, South Korea. Using the geosemiotic framework as a heuristic guide, we analyze how the spectacle of Chinatown is constituted through spatial, linguistic, semiotic, and material resources, and find that the unordinariness of the place is contingent on and emerges through its juxtaposition with ordinary space, practice, and language use. We suggest this apparent paradox can be…
Chinatown transformed: Ideology, power, and resources in narrative place-making
Combining textual, visual, and ethnographic approaches to discourse, this article examines a variety of resources employed in the narrative construction of Washington, DC’s Chinatown in a billboard advertisement that de-ethnicizes the neighborhood. Analysis of the linguistic resources of narrative structure, comparative reference, and lexical cohesion reveals how the gentrification of Chinatown is constructed as a positive transformation driven b…
Wordswewear: Mobile texts, expressive persons, and conviviality in urban spaces
In this programmatic paper, we approach #wordswewear, referring to the wide range of linguistic inscriptions on clothing and accessories, as part of the embodied, mobile semiotic landscape of the city. Our main objective is to reflect on (1) the conditions that gave rise to the apparent pervasiveness of #wordswewear in urban spaces, and (2) the extent to which they constitute a form of public, urban discourse. Drawing on an emergent collection of…
Chinatown in Washington, DC: The bilingual landscape
Originated as a new approach to multilingualism, research on linguistic landscapes has typically focused on the varieties of language inscribed on the surface of a particular place. As this original conceptualization and its associated methodology have not always sufficed to capture the sociolinguistic complexities of contemporary urban environments, recent researchers have called for a more contextualized approach to linguistic landscapes. Drawi…
Localising cosmopolitanism in place talk: Semiotic landscape as stance object
Sociolinguistic research has begun to critique the generalised view of cosmopolitanism as indexed by the use of global and non-local languages and urge us to explore its variety and complexity as situated and dialogical practices. This article answers this call by examining how cosmopolitanism is localised in place talk. Drawing from a larger ethnographic study of language, space, and cosmopolitanism in Shanghai, the analysis focuses on how parti…
Chinatown transformed: Ideology, power, and resources in narrative place-making
Combining textual, visual, and ethnographic approaches to discourse, this article examines a variety of resources employed in the narrative construction of Washington, DC’s Chinatown in a billboard advertisement that de-ethnicizes the neighborhood. Analysis of the linguistic resources of narrative structure, comparative reference, and lexical cohesion reveals how the gentrification of Chinatown is constructed as a positive transformation driven b…
Chinatown in Washington, DC: The bilingual landscape
Originated as a new approach to multilingualism, research on linguistic landscapes has typically focused on the varieties of language inscribed on the surface of a particular place. As this original conceptualization and its associated methodology have not always sufficed to capture the sociolinguistic complexities of contemporary urban environments, recent researchers have called for a more contextualized approach to linguistic landscapes. Drawi…
The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts
Book synopsis: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. The collection contri…
TheLinguistic Landscape of Chinatown: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography
This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors and analysis of community meetings and public poli…
Shop sign as monument: The discursive recontextualization of a neon sign
Ethnographic studies of linguistic landscape have shed light on the complex processes in which signage is designed, created, perceived, and interpreted. This paper highlights the role of public discourse in such processes by tracing how the neon sign of a restaurant in Hong Kong ironically reached monumental status after its removal. Expanding the geosemiotic framework with the theory of recontexualization, it examines the shifting meanings of th…
Itineraries of protest signage: Semiotic landscape and the mythologizing of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
The pro-democracy occupation of three commercial and retail areas in Hong Kong that lasted over two months in the fall of 2014 – known as the Umbrella Movement – created a myth of Utopia (Barthes 1984 [1954]). In this paper, we track the itineraries (Scollon 2008) and resemiotizations (Iedema 2003) of the protest signage to show how they mythologized the Movement by “branding space”, “regulating and disciplining actions”, and “unifying the voice …
Spaces of consumption and senses of place: A geosemiotic analysis of three markets in Hong Kong
While spaces of consumption have been extensively studied in geography, recent sociolinguistic research on metrolingual markets, semiotic landscapes, and translanguaging space present new ways to examine the linguistic, semiotic, and sensory aspects of these prosaic spaces. Integrating these perspectives in a geosemiotic framework, this paper examines the interactions in three markets in Hong Kong which have emerged as important social spaces for…
The ordinary semiotic landscape of an unordinary place: Spatiotemporal disjunctures in Incheon's Chinatown
This article examines the semiotic landscape of the Chinatown in Incheon, South Korea. Using the geosemiotic framework as a heuristic guide, we analyze how the spectacle of Chinatown is constituted through spatial, linguistic, semiotic, and material resources, and find that the unordinariness of the place is contingent on and emerges through its juxtaposition with ordinary space, practice, and language use. We suggest this apparent paradox can be…
Wordswewear: Mobile texts, expressive persons, and conviviality in urban spaces
In this programmatic paper, we approach #wordswewear, referring to the wide range of linguistic inscriptions on clothing and accessories, as part of the embodied, mobile semiotic landscape of the city. Our main objective is to reflect on (1) the conditions that gave rise to the apparent pervasiveness of #wordswewear in urban spaces, and (2) the extent to which they constitute a form of public, urban discourse. Drawing on an emergent collection of…
The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19
Preview this article: The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ll.00031.int-1.gif
Localising cosmopolitanism in place talk: Semiotic landscape as stance object
Sociolinguistic research has begun to critique the generalised view of cosmopolitanism as indexed by the use of global and non-local languages and urge us to explore its variety and complexity as situated and dialogical practices. This article answers this call by examining how cosmopolitanism is localised in place talk. Drawing from a larger ethnographic study of language, space, and cosmopolitanism in Shanghai, the analysis focuses on how parti…
Jones, Rodney H.
Rodney H. Jones (b.1959) is currently the Associate Head of the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, where he has been teaching since 1995 (home page: http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/∼enrodney ). Jones received a BA in English Literature from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas in Fayetteville, an MPhil in English from City University of Hong Kong, and a PhD in Lingu…
Scaling silence: Discursive distancing in the linguistic landscape of London Chinatown during Covid-19
This article employs a multi-scalar approach to examine silences in the linguistic landscape of London Chinatown during Covid-19. Defining silence paradigmatically, it explores the relative absence of pandemic signage, in contrast to their proliferation in other urban spaces. A total of 462 pandemic signs were photographed during four field trips to Chinatown, complemented with observations of its online linguistic landscape as represented in soc…
Linguistics (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Linguistic landscape (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works)