Fictional Linguistic Landscapes - (New Perspectives on Language and Education) by Osman Solmaz

About the Book

This book explores how fan practices, such as fan art and fan fiction, and linguistic landscapes - the language surrounding us in everyday contexts - can be integrated into foreign language teaching. The book represents a step forward in EFL and TESOL pedagogy, making language learning relevant to today's students.

Book Synopsis

This book explores how fan practices, such as fan art and fan fiction, and linguistic landscapes - the language surrounding us in everyday contexts - can be integrated into foreign language teaching. The book represents a step forward in EFL and TESOL pedagogy, making language learning relevant to today's students.

Review Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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"

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"

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.-- "Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, University of Hamburg, Germany"

About the Author

Osman Solmaz is an Associate Professor of English Language Teaching at Dicle University, Türkiye, and holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona, USA. He is the recipient of the 2025 TESOL Teacher of the Year Award. His research explores language teacher education, linguistic landscapes, and the integration of digital technologies and fan practices into second language teaching and learning.