The All-Seeing Eye of the Citythrough the Prism of Sociolinguistics
The paper analyses semiotic signs used in surveillance as a common urban communication practice. The dual nature of signs is used to construct the situations of surveillance, which include a subject, object, place, time, aim of surveillance, and consequences of actions seen as forbidden or undesirable. The semiotics of the urban landscape reﬂects the asymmetrical relationship between unidentiﬁed representatives of power structures as the subjects of surveillance, and common citizens as its objects.