The public space has long been considered in linguistics as a contextual factor ("publicness") that contributes to a binary pragmatic characterization of communicative acts. However, in the context of Linguistic Landscape research, the public space is being redefined as a central resource for language and communication. This has far-reaching consequences for the parameterization of forms of communication and text types; traditional forms of communication and text types are changing, new ones are emerging, new communication constellations are forming, and communicative acts are becoming increasingly multimodally complex. This volume, from the perspectives of Germanic linguistics, addresses these aspects by focusing on forms of communication and text types in public space as well as different manifestations of text type networking from various theoretical and empirical viewpoints.