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This book offers a multi-contributor view on the linguistic landscape research in Spain, focusing on both monolingual and bilingual regions of Spain with an interest in initiatives that promote social and linguistic justice without neglecting migrant and international languages in the territory. The agency of speakers is highlighted, as well as the processes of linguistic hybridization and identity claims that are created in Spain. This volume analyzes the semiotic meaning of different languages, varieties, and discursive practices in different Spanish contexts from an ethnographic, multimodal, and critical perspective. It observes how some languages, varieties, and repertoires are privileged in top-down institutional environments, whilst others respond to bottom-up initiatives that contemplate complex processes of identity construction in Spain, in order to decide whether or not a greater balance between majority and minority languages is achieved in different contexts and spaces nowadays.

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Carla Amorós Negre is a PhD in Linguistics and Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca in the General Linguistics Area (Spanish Linguistics Department). Her main areas of scholarly interest include Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Multilingualism, Anthropological Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bremen. Gabriela Prego Vázquez is Associate Professor of General Linguistics at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. She belongs to the MetalingüisTICa research group at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Her fields of study are critical sociolinguistics, ethnography, and language education.

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