Fictional Linguistic Landscapes

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What happens when fan fiction meets linguistic landscapes? An innovative, creative, and thought-provoking book about the potential of fictional linguistic landscapes in the language classroom. With carefully crafted theoretical insights and rich empirical examples, this work shows that fan fiction and linguistic landscapes are destined to live happily ever after. * Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, University of Hamburg, Germany * This is an innovative volume rich in creative teaching examples and material for language educators interested in bringing multimodal fan practices into their classes. By merging the boundaries of second language pedagogy and linguistic landscaping with popular fan practices found in the digital wilds, it addresses an often-raised concern by language teachers around the world: how to truly engage language students in reading, writing and thinking in the target language. * Shannon Sauro, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Solmaz's work outlines a unique and timely coming together of linguistic landscape research, fan practice research, and L2 pedagogy. Teachers and researchers will find in this book a cogent review of the literature and an innovative way to bridge the rich fictional worlds that already immerse learners with the new worlds and languages they are learning. It is exciting and inspiring to see how deeply learners can be engaged with language when they tap into the worlds beyond the classroom. * Jonathon Reinhardt, University of Arizona, USA *