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This chapter will discuss one aspect of an on-going investigation into the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of French and Italian Mediterranean coastal towns with a view to examining the context for the management of the public space, something which in terms of language policy is tackled in radically different ways by the two states involved. Since 2007, we have collected data from Mediterranean urban areas in both France and Italy, and consider here our findings from Corsica, Northern Catalonia, and Marseille (in France), and Genoa, Cagliari, and Naples (in Italy). By comparing two different approaches, we seek to discern whether what we refer to as policies and non-policies influence the appearance of the LL.
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Blackwood, R., Tufi, S. (2012). Policies vs Non-Policies: Analysing Regional Languages and the National Standard in the Linguistic Landscape of French and Italian Mediterranean Cities. In: Gorter, D., Marten, H.F., Van Mensel, L. (eds) Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360235_7
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