5 ♡ Linguistic Landscape

linguistic landscape

• interdisciplinary field

• visible use of language in a particular place or community

• words, images, symbols, & colors

• environmental print

  • cities as texts

• Landry & Bourhis

  • first used this term in a paper published in 1997

features of linguistic landscape

• socio-economic in nature

  • correlation between use of language and standard of living

top-down

• public signs/institutions/announcements

• public signs of general interest

• signs of street names

• created by the state & local government bodies

bottom-up

• public shop signs

• signs of private business street names

  • office, factories, & agencies

• created by shop owners

• private businesses

• private announcements

  • wanted ads

  • sale or rentals of flats or cars

importance

• where society’s public life takes place

• crucial socio symbolic importance

• emblem of societies, communities, & region

• language learning

• day-to-day lives

• open to everyone & free

geosemiotics

• study of social meaning of the material placement of signs in the world

• including language & discourse

kinds of signs

• regulatory

• infrastructure

• commercial

• transgressive

regulatory

• indicates authority

• official or legal prohibitions

infrastructure

• labels things/directs for the maintenance

  • of a building or any infrastructure

commercial

• advertises or promotes

  • product, event, or service in commerce

transgressive

• if it violates (intentionally or accidentally)

  • the conventional semiotics

• in wrong place

netizen

• abstraction of the words

  • internet & citizen

• people who go online

• citizen of the online landscape/world

online landscape

• youtube

  • American video-sharing platform

  • San Bruno, California, USA

• X formerly twitter

  • American microblogging & social networking service

  • users post & interact with messages known as tweets

• memes

  • any post that is funny