What the signs say : language, gentrification, and place-making in Brooklyn /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Trinch, Shonna L. (Author), Snajdr, Edward (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Signs and signboards > New York (State) > New York. Street art > New York (State) > New York. Gentrification > New York (State) > New York. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Discovering a Field Site
1. Reading a "Distinctive" Brooklyn
2. Deep Wordplay: Registering, Belonging, and Excluding
3. Baby/Mama in the Nabe: Gender, Gentrification, Race, and Class
4. Competing Semiotics: Elusive Authenticity and the Inevitable Arrival of Corporate America
5. Lessons from the Street
Conclusion: Public Language Matters
Appendix: Demographic Information about Informant Sample for Sign Type Survey
Notes
References
Index