Affiliation:
1. The Ohio State University
2. Georgetown University
Abstract
Abstract
We use a geographically informed notion of landscape and Williams’ (1977) framework structure of feeling to examine ‘closed’, masking, and social distancing signs on businesses in the Washington, DC central-city neighborhood of Adams Morgan. We argue that the semantic content and discursive structure of the Covid signs, together with the in-the-moment feeling of walking down empty streets while a little-understood virus had just started raging, promoted a reconceptualization of labor relations tied to solidarity, public health, and communal responsibility, and making visible the working conditions of low-wage workers. This new structure of feeling opens up a space – however narrow – of political possibility.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
6 articles.
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1. Semiotics of a Covid landscape;Linguistic Landscape. An international journal;2023-08-17
2. Complicating solidarity;Linguistic Landscape. An international journal;2022-09-01
3. Hybrid places;Linguistic Landscape. An international journal;2022-09-01
4. A sign in the window;Linguistic Landscape. An international journal;2022-09-01
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