Milan Ferencik

• University of Prešov

The outbreak of the military conflict in Ukraine has led to the emergence of a layer of multimodal signage in public spaces as a channel of newly establishing crisis communication in neighbouring states. Using photographic data collected by the authors in the Eastern Slovak town of Prešov, the paper documents, analyses, and discusses this new addit...

Our proposal for an academic course concerns geocultural globalization and the associated flows of ideas, meanings, values and semiotic resources, including languages, which are manifested in particular configurations of (peri-)urban linguistic landscapes. Within the course students are engaged in tracing synchronies and diachronies of social proce...

Intense mobility of people and languages driven by tourism, which propels "cultural transformation of places" (Urry, 1995:2) across the world, is manifested in their linguistic landscapes through varying regimes of multilingualism. Linguistic landscapes, which render themselves for "visual consumption" (Urry, 2005), emerge from the sedimentation an...

Using examples of studies published in three international journals in the field of linguistics, the study deals with the differences between domestic and Anglo-Saxon style of scientific writing. I examine studies of Slovak and Czech authors publishing in Slovak and/or Czech and in English and compare them with the English studies of international...

A murder of a Slovak investigative journalist in February 2018 led to a wave of massive rallies across the country and abroad which demanded a fair investigation of the murder as well as some political concessions. The grass-roots protests were held under the slogan Za slušné Slovensko (For a Decent Slovakia) in which the concept of slušnosť (decen...

Centres of tourism across the world are established by social practices performed by actors in the tourism industry, among which practices of im/politeness, as displayed in public signs and notices, can be seen as conveying particular configurations of interpersonal relations and contributing thus to the making of ‘linguascapes’. It is suggested th...

In reaction to the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo staff in January 2015, the Je suis Charlie movement emerged as a demonstration of solidarity with the victims. At the same time, however, the Je ne suis pas Charlie counter-stance found its way mostly into unofficial discussions, which became prolific fora where the in/appropriateness of the actions...

Almost immediately after the Charlie Hebdo shootings of 7 January 2015, some print media made room for alternative opinions of what had happened. The articles and the discussions they inspired are replete with evaluations which lend themselves to analysis using methods and procedures of Politeness Theory. The paper examines an example of a metadisc...

Across the world urban semioscapes emerge from multiple and mutually interlocking social activities of the members of sociocultural groups and are established through the deployment of layered configurations of semiotic resources and discourses which index patterns of these activities as well as the underlying norms and values of these groups. A pa...

Urban spaces are loci of multiple and mutually interlocking social practices which are indexed by complex configurations of semiotic resources which different social agents use in the process of the making of a given place. Over the past years, a conspicuous semiotic practice has emerged in the linguistic landscape of a Slovakia´s medium-sized city...

The paper seeks to demonstrate that, first, over the course of interaction in the radio phone-in events, participants display orientation to various aspects of their co-participants´ identities, second, since membership categories emerge and are developed at various sequentially relevant times, membership categorisation processes are closely tied w...