FUCK THE NEW WORLD ORDER: THE EMERGENCE OF ENGLISH AS A LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL PROTEST AND CONTESTATION IN LLEIDA - Carme Cervelló and Sílvia Torres
FUCK THE NEW WORLD ORDER: THE EMERGENCE OF ENGLISH AS A LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL PROTEST AND CONTESTATION IN LLEIDA Carme Cervelló Garcia ccg28@alumnes.udl.cat Sílvia Torres Turmo stt3@alumnes.udl.cat INTRODUCTION The token we will analyse here is a piece of graffiti, which belongs to the domain activity of urban art, posted on a wall in a bottom-up manner, and written in English (which semiotically predominates) as well as Catalan, monoglosically, in the Roman script. Reading “Fuck the new world order (transfeminisme, contra el liberalisme)”, we will argue, in the analysis, that it is indexical of how global languages are getting accommodated into the Catalan sociolinguistic landscapes of Lleida, for social protest and contestation, through the use of aesthetic and identity values. English is used extensively on a variety of (non-)institutional communicative inscriptions in the public realm as the global language of communication and lingua franca (ELF) that it has co...