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What the Signs Say : Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn /

"Argues that the public language of storefronts is a key component to the creation of place in Brooklyn, New York. Uses a sample of more than 2,000 storefronts and over a decade of ethnographic observation and interviews to charts two types of local Brooklyn retail signage: Old School, which us...

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Autores principales: Trinch, Shonna L. (Autor), Snajdr, Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: Discovering a field site -- Reading a "distinctive" Brooklyn -- Deep wordplay : Registering, belonging, and excluding -- Baby/mama in the Nabe : Gender, gentrification, race, and class -- Competing semiotics : Elusive authenticity and the inevitable arrival of corporate America -- Lessons from the street -- Conclusion: Public language matters -- Appendix: Demographic information about informant sample for sign type survey. 
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