Introducing semiotic landscapes, Adam Jaworsld and Crispin Thurlow (University of Washington, USA and Cardiff University, UK); 1. Changing landscapes: Language, space, and policy in the Dublin linguistic landscape, Jeffrey L. Kallen (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland); 2. Discourses in transit, Mark Sebba (Lancaster University, UK); 3. Welsh linguistic landscapes 'from above' and 'from below', Nikolas Coupland (Cardiff University, UK); 4. Ideological struggles on signage in Jamaica, Susan Dray (Lancaster University, UK); 5. Sex in the city: On making space and identity in travel spaces, Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia); 6. Spatial narrations: Graffscapes and city souls, Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); 7. Cyberspace and physical space: Attention structures in Computer Mediated Communication, Rodney H. Jones (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); 8. "A Latino community takes hold": Reproducing semiotic landscapes in media discourse, Thomas D. Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); 9. Silence is golden: The 'anti-communicational' linguascaping of super-elite mobility, Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski (University of Washington, USA and Cardiff University, UK); 10. War monuments and the changing discourses of nation and soldiery, Gill Abousnnouga and David Machin (University of Glamorgan and University of Leicester, UK); 11. Building the nation, writing the past: History and textuality at the Haapala memorial in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Elana Shohamy and Shoshi Waksman (Tel Aviv University, Israel); 12. Faces of places: Facades as global communication in Post-Eastern Bloc urban renewal, Irina Gendelman and Giorgia Aiello (University of Washington, USA); 13. Semiosis takes place or radical uses of quaint theories, Ella Chmielewska (University of Edinburgh, Scotland); Index.

Since the emergence of sociolinguistics as a new field of enquiry in the late 1960s, research into the relationship between language and society has advanced almost beyond recognition. In particular, the past decade has witnessed the considerable influence of theories drawn from outside of sociolinguistics itself. Thus rather than see language as a mere reflection of society, recent work has been increasingly inspired by ideas drawn from social, cultural, and political theory that have emphasised the constitutive role played by language/discourse in all areas of social life. The Advances in Sociolinguistics series seeks to provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with the role of language in society.