This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century.

Isabelle Buchstaller is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Malgorzata Fabiszak is a professor at the Faculty of English and Head of the Department of Cognitive Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.

Melody Ann Ross is a sociolinguist and researcher in the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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Introduction (Isabelle Buchstaller, Malgorzata Fabiszak, Melody Ann Ross)

Part I: Post-colonial transitions in the LL

1. Plantations, place-naming, and the contested afterlife of slavery (Derek H. Alderman)

2. The spatial politics of the commemorative street names of Hong Kong (Wenchuan Huang)

3. Multilingualism for whom in Rwanda? The nexus of power and practices (Tove Rosendal)

4. Politics in the linguistic landscape of Dili, Timor-Leste (Melody Ann Ross)

5. A tale of two cities: Recycling history through discourses of identity, nostalgia, and heritage (Rani Rubdy)

6. Timespace discontinuity in the LL - the case of two slavery sites in Ghana (Stefania Tufi, Robert Blackwood and Jemima Asabea Anderson)

Part II: Post-communist transformations of the LL

7. Murals as a carrier of change: The transformative power of a street art festival in a small Bulgarian village (Patryk Borowiak)

8. Commemorative street naming practices in the border towns Frankfurt (Oder) / Slubice (Malgorzata Fabiszak, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anna Weronika Brzezinska, and Seraphim Alvanides)

9. Street name plates as a mirror of compromised decommunization: The influence of lower-level urban actors on the linguistic streetscape in Ukraine (Oleksiy Gnatiuk and Anatoliy Melnychuk)

10. The walls of peril: Belligerent symbolics of post-war murals in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Maida Kosatica)

Part III: Current contestations in and of the LL

11. The Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh: Linguistic landscape, document, and poetic autoethnography analyses (David I. Hanauer)

12. Stonewall was a riot!: Politics in Cologne's Pride (Hannah Sawall)

13. Semiotic assemblages in the linguistic landscape of protest in Venezuela (Jessica Velásquez Urribarrí)

14. Code choice, humour, intertextuality, and the expression of emotions in the linguistic landscape of the women's protest in Poland 2020-2021 vs. the 1980s (Michal Wasilewski)

15. Production of representational spaces as the political construction of "New Turkey": Re/naming public spaces after the coup attempt (Ece Yoltay)

Index