A language of resistance: The pro-Palestinian linguistic landscape of Cape Town (South Africa) and its physical, lingual, and functional complexity (opens in new tab)

This article is dedicated to the pro-Palestinian linguistic landscape (PPLL) of Cape Town. An analysis of 239 signs reveals that the linguistic landscape of this research site is highly complex. The signage is diverse with regard to its physicality (modality, materiality, and compositionality), lingualism (languages used, their formal properties, and mutual configurations), and functionality (authorship, readership, purposes, domains of use, and thematic scope). Overall, the properties of the...