The street speaks to you

Join us to discover how the signs, graffiti, and labels we see daily turn the city into a fascinating living laboratory. In this talk, we will learn to “read” the streets with new eyes to unveil how words written in public spaces shape our identity, reveal social dynamics, and tell us hidden stories about who the urban environment we inhabit really belongs to.

Speaker

• María Águeda Moreno Moreno — Universidad de Jaén

About the talk

Signs, labels, graffiti, notices, menus, or plaques are part of the daily landscape of any city and form a constant network of messages that we read almost without realizing it. By observing them closely, the city reveals itself as an authentic open-air laboratory for linguistic science. The Linguistic Landscape (LL) that inhabits the urban space speaks to us of power, identity, memory, conflict, and belonging: who the city is addressed to, who is left out of that discourse, and how language builds, transforms, and disputes public space as a living and social element.