ISBN:
0520208013
,
0520208021
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bierman, Irene A. Writing signs
DDC:
302.2244096209021
Keywords:
Written communication History
;
Egypt
;
Arabic language Social aspects
;
Fatimites Language
;
Written communication
;
Egypt
;
History
;
Arabic language
;
Social aspects
;
Fatimites
;
Language
;
Fatimidenreich
;
Arabische Schrift
;
Inschrift
;
Kairo
;
Arabische Schrift
;
Inschrift
;
Geschichte 969-1171
Abstract:
One visual sign found in contemporary multi-cultural cities is the public presence of different alphabets. Signs written in different alphabets appear on buildings large and small, on store fronts, on billboards flanking the road, on busses passing through the streets. In Los Angeles, along parts of Wilshire Boulevard, signs written in Persian, Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, and English differentiate places, marking zones. These written signs in public places indicate the presence of a community. They are embedded in a whole range of socially constructed institutions and practices. The full potency of what these writing signs convey depends on the social position from which you view them. For some viewers, these signs with strange alphabets strengthen differences.
Note:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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