This study maps the linguistic landscape of main 3-kilometer road to Bang Saen Beach in East Thailand using images roadside signs from Google Street View. In total, 7710 textual were taken over 7 years: 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Most monolingual (5119=66.39%), Thai was dominant (3982=77.79%). The Thai-English combination mostly found bilingual (2476=97.74%). 2941 examples tr...

The spoken language navigation task requires a user to navigate through a virtual landscape (displayed on a monitor) using only natural language, that is, without the use of a mouse or keyboard. This "hands-free/eyes-free" human/computer interaction has been sought after by users who must work in moving vehicles and otherwise disruptive, busy, and distracting conditions. An additional reason fo...

This paper reexamines the potential impact of the English-only movement on linguistic minorities and Anglos’ perceptions of their own and minority groups’ language vitality. Of particular interest is the Hispanic population—the fastest growing minority in the U.S. Communication scholars have paid only scant attention to the English-only movement and how it affects the social and communication c...

In the recent past, the important role played by multiword expressions in the language has been recognized by the natural language processing community. Simply put, a multiword expression (MWE) is a word collocation that exhibits markedly peculiar linguistic behaviour in terms of lexicalization, syntax or semantics. Among others, ubiquitous compound nouns, idioms and phrasal verbs fall into thi...

The current ethno-linguistic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia is a result of the spread of Tai speakers from southern China. This study examines Chinese loanwords in Proto-Southwestern Tai, the hypothetical ancestor of all modern Southwestern Tai varieties and proposes a dating of the spread of Southwestern Tai languages. By comparing the reconstructed Proto-Southwestern Tai forms with corr...

The Chomskyan revolution in linguistics in the 1950s in essence turned linguistics into a branch of cognitive science (and ultimately biology) by both changing the linguistic landscape and forcing a radical change in cognitive science to accommodate linguistics as many of us conceive of it today. More recently Chomsky has advanced the boldest version of his naturalistic approach to language by ...

Abstract This article aims to determine the way languages are represented in linguistic landscape of city Yakutsk, particular, representation Sakha and ethnic (minority) languages: Even, Evenki, Yukaghir, Chukchi, Dolgan. To meet this aim, following objectives were completed: a systematic compilation texts from outdoor signs available on two main streets Yakutsk; field research city; formation ...