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SUMMARY:#RC21 Viola Wiegand: Concordancing the signage of surveillant 
 landscapes
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the RC21 Project Symposium\, where invited spe
 akers and project team members will present their work on methodology 
 and applications of concordance analysis! &nbsp\; Viola Wiegand: »Con
 cordancing the signage of surveillant landscapes« Abstract: Surveilla
 nt practices are widespread in modern life\, and while they are often 
 based on digital technologies\, some can be visible in physical enviro
 nments\, especially in cities. From a linguistic perspective\, examini
 ng patterns of surveillance discourses not just in monomodal text but 
 also in multimodal sources can contribute to our understanding of mean
 ing in society. In this talk\, I focus on textual patterns that point 
 to surveillant practices operating in urban environments. I introduce 
 an innovative method of corpus compilation based on multimodal data: p
 hotographs from the “Signs of Surveillance” art project (Buzzo\, 2
 020) are processed with automatic text extraction. This procedure enab
 les me to then concordance the physical signage that informs passers-b
 y about surveillant practices operating in urban areas. For the concor
 dance analysis\, I adopt the sociolinguistic framework of ‘surveilla
 nt landscapes’ (Jones\, 2017). I argue that a corpus linguistic appr
 oach is particularly suited to identifying textual patterns across a r
 ange of surveillant landscapes. Common patterns such as CCTV in operat
 ion and images are being monitored particularly highlight the role of 
 urban video surveillance. In addition\, the talk will demonstrate that
  concordancing the signage of surveillant landscapes can also reveal t
 extual evidence which offers insights into power relations. References
 : Buzzo\, D. (2020). Signs of surveillance. In R. Earnshaw\, S. Ligget
 t\, P. Excell\, & D. Thalmann (Eds.)\, Technology\, Design and the Art
 s—Opportunities and Challenges (pp. 159–181). Springer. Jones\, R.
  H. (2017). Surveillant landscapes. Linguistic Landscape\, 3(2)\, 150
 –187.
DTSTART:20250320T113000Z
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LOCATION:Kollegienhaus\, Universitätsstraße 15\, 91054 Erlangen
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