In Washington DC's newly gentrified Chinatown, recent commercial establishments, primarily non‐Chinese owned chains, use Chinese‐language signs as design features targeted towards people who neither read nor have ethnic ties to Chinese. Using this neighborhood a case study, we advocate contextualized, historicized and spatialized perspective on linguistic landscape which highlights that landscapes are not simply physical spaces but instead ideologically charged constructions. Drawing from...

Series Preface. List of Figures. Acknowledgments. Part I: The Ethnography. 1. Sketching the Landscape. 2. Mt. Pleasant History and Social Geography. 3. Moral Geography Pleasant. 4. Politics Filth. 5. La Loca vs. Cultural Vampires. 6. Keeping it in Family. 7. Home Ties, Winds Change. II: Making Turf Wars. 8. Theorizing Discourse. 9. Locations. Addendum: Defining Terms. Bibliography. Index.

Abstract The structure and function of a sociolinguistic interview sets up context that affords informants the opportunity to achieve their own goals. We examine how an informant manipulates reception format speech event, using embedded orientation characterize information as alternately given or new, interviewer consequently insider outsider. Whereas previous analyses have examined highlights sheds light on in complicating action clauses, we posit content clauses is important itself. Rather...

While research on business improvement districts (BIDs) has considered the constraints BIDs can place negotiation of public space and citizenship, little work focused process establishing neighborhood (NBIDs), few scholars have examined perceptions held by actual constituents. This article analyzes a participatory mapping project messages e-mail list to compare visions expressed disempowered community members an NBID proposal. Our analysis illuminates how local power relations inequalities...

Background In a time-constrained clinical environment, physicians cannot feasibly document all aspects of an office visit in the electronic health record (EHR). This is especially true for patients with multiple chronic conditions requiring complex reasoning. It unclear how prioritize documentation information EHR. Objective The goal this study to examine tradeoffs made by when caring comparing content conversations resulting EHR documentation. Methods We used grounded theory method...

Abstract We use a geographically informed notion of landscape and Williams’ (1977) framework structure feeling to examine ‘closed’, masking, social distancing signs on businesses in the Washington, DC central-city neighborhood Adams Morgan. argue that semantic content discursive Covid signs, together with in-the-moment walking down empty streets while little-understood virus had just started raging, promoted reconceptualization labor relations tied solidarity, public health, communal...

Abstract The rise of the commodified city has encouraged new attention to symbolic systems that structure our understandings difference and inequality in urban areas. This paper analyzes one those systems, namely discourse. I examine how term diversity developed multiple meanings over past 10 years Mt. Pleasant, a gentrifying neighborhood Washington, DC, trace these developments their connections with changes local economy, politics, demographics. In mid‐1990s, indexed community discourses...

This paper explores the dialectic of place and community identity in Mount Pleasant, a multi–ethnic multi–class U.S. neighborhood where definitions are hotly contested among its residents. In grant proposal for public toilets, Pleasant writers use linguistic strategies such as presupposition, deixis, contrast, coupled with discursive themes filth geography, to construct core community. The themselves people who share their values that core, immigrants at margins. These serve type spatial...

White is used to signify, often implicitly, a number of qualitatively different phenomena, thereby masking both and similar positionalities between within ethnic groups. In Jewish Washingtonians' talk Whiteness, the weights which speakers assign culture, marginality, skin color lead shifting contradictory ascriptions Jews category White. These complicate binary discourse ethnicity found in much recent research public Washington, D.C.

With the ever‐increasing accessibility of new communications media, there has been growing discussion among ethnographers about how media data such as e‐mails, SMS /texts, blogs, news article comment sections, or community group websites have impacted practice ethnography. Generally, questions center around characteristics itself. Less often discussed is effect on relationships between and members communities they study. This explores what happens when social becomes a channel through which...

Abstract This paper brings together urban planning and linguistic perspectives to examine the semiotic landscape of a Washington, DC ‘streatery’ in context intersecting public health- place-based economic crises unleashed by Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing from Garay-Huamán Irazábal-Zurita’s (2021) work on neoliberal Social Structures Accumulation (SSA), we how different layers Adams Morgan’s emergent Covid are rooted dynamics capitalist accumulation through placemaking strategies. We focus signs...

Background: End-of-life discussions rarely begin early in a patient’s disease course due to the time intensive nature of these conversations. Neglect such conversations often results poor understanding about care preferences. Electronic health record (EHR)-tethered Personal Health Records (PHRs) are being used more widely chronic management and may provide efficient vehicle embark on end-of-life conversations, also known as Advance Care Planning (ACP). Objective: To investigate cultural...

Advance Care Planning (ACP) remains extremely low in the US, due to numerous institutional and cultural barriers discomfort discussing death. There is a need for guidance about how patient healthcare providers can effectively engage ACP discussion. Here we analyze linguistic strategies that focus-group participants use when detailed ways. Prevalent structures effective discussions were loved ones’ end-of-life narratives, hypothetical constructed dialogue. In elucidating spontaneous,...