Authoritarian placeless projects after 2017 introduced a significant shift in Cairo’s linguistic landscape; giant streets and electronic billboards, banners, signs co-shaped the city’s global image. Promoting English bilingualism (English-Arabic) created study question. Why do advertisements address Arabic-speaking population English? This aims at investigating Cairene policy its cultural meani...

Previous studies on the Arabic linguistic landscape have identified commodification of in heritage sites; however, identification was not accompanied by a satisfactory account. The current article investigates distribution languages, with particular reference to position commercial Leipzig, highlighting Leipzig. data were collected taking pictures shop signs Leipzig’s Strassenbahnstrasse and wr...

Abstract Agency has been an ongoing topic of concern in Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies since the field’s emergence while more recently notions top-down vs. bottom-up power have questioned favor nuanced appreciations multiple factors that influence a local LL actor’s selection and emplacement public language. schools United States exists at nexus policy (determined national, state, district l...

The advent of usage-/exemplar-based approaches has resulted in a major change in the theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought to bear on the study of language acquisition/learning, structure, and use. In particular, methods from corpus linguistics are now frequently used to study distributional characteristics of linguistics units and what th...

Among countries have all had an impact on how language is regarded. When considering the linguistic landscape in modern time of scientific-linguistic studies, multilingualism, various discursive acts, sociolinguistic frames and affordances complicate process viewing placing it. In small-scale research Odiongan, a municipality Tablas Island, rapidly rising administrative commercial centre Romblo...

Abstract This chapter explores how aspects of the landscape can be incorporated in language teaching practices. Drawing on area research known as “linguistic landscape,” teachers have recently begun to see linguistic a pedagogical resource. Jaworski and Thurlow’s (2010) work broadens these ideas. They use term semiotic , which is “any (public) space with visible inscription made through deliber...

This study examines the visual aesthetic function of English signs in line with ethnographic approaches as a means of achieving various symbolic and communicative implications in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Jordan. Having coded the data in 6 urban streets of the major Jordanian cities, the social semiotic analysis centers on the visual layout of signs based on the typographical features of...

Language is systematically structured at all levels of description, arguably setting it apart from all other instances of communication in nature. In this article, I survey work over the last 20 years that emphasises the contributions of individual learning, cultural transmission, and biological evolution to explaining the structural design features of language. These 3 complex adaptive systems...