Abstract The treatment of politeness in the language classroom is often restricted to a brief overview polite forms address, verb tenses, and lexical items. In this chapter, novel pedagogical approach proposed which uses instructional signage found linguistic landscape enrich students’ appreciation real pragmatic force practices. Creators signage, whether official or ad-hoc, aim regulate behavi...

Abstract In Abu Dhabi, multilingualism amongst its highly diverse population is typical. However, with Arabic as the official language and English lingua franca, population’s other languages are subordinate on public signage. Those proficient in or have more access to information than those who not. While effective communication important ordinary times, it especially vital during a crisis. Thi...

Abstract Recent sociolinguistic studies have emphasized the role of linguistic landscape (LL) in relation to languages and identity negotiation. The present study examines presence Asturian, a minoritized language spoken Principality Asturies, LL town located center Asturies: Mieres. Through qualitative analyses, data illustrate that Asturian has visibility not only on top-down signage but also...

Past approaches to ideological commemorative street naming have taken for granted the concept of ideology, focusing on policy decisions and debates surrounding individual more concerted resemioticisations. In this paper, we demonstrate that ideology in context renaming is by no means unequivocal illustrating how different what or not an name change influences shape scope ‘the robe city’ (Zieliń...

Shop signs are a visible indication of the linguistic landscape place, hence need for public policies to control, particularly, bottom-up in situations where there issues, such ensuring consistency and correct representation second language. To investigate bilingual shop Saudi Arabia, this study examines lettering shopping malls Riyadh Jeddah terms relative size, information, quality English-Ar...