Mr. Graffiti as street culture:

breaking the silence on London's walls

Abstract

This research, started at the University of California – Los Angeles and improved at the University College London, seeks to establish a dialogue between linguistics and anthropology, so that we understand how graffiti, understood here as a popular art, seeks to combat social exclusion. This text explains how language, expressed through art, constructs ideological discourses and identities for specific communities. Through this popular art, a cultural manifestation is elaborated with emphasis on the voice of those excluded from the social system - the present notion is to focus on the peripheral spaces of the streets where graffiti becomes not only art, but also a way of speaking. From this perspective, I will focus the discussion on graffiti, in the city of London, through which young people use this popular art to express their ideologies. For that, I present here some examples, brought in the book The Writing on the Wall, written by Roger Perry, in 1976. The book by Roger Perry is an old photographic collection about graffiti in London and was relaunched in 2015.