Linguistic Landscapes

Peter Backhaus

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Language: English

Published by Channel View Publications Ltd, GB, 2006

1853599468 / 9781853599460

Series: Book 96 of 141 - Multilingual Matters

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Linguistic Landscapes is the first comprehensive approach to a largely under-explored sociolinguistic phenomenon: language on signs. Based on an up-to-date review of previous research from various places around the world, the book develops an analytical framework for the systematic analysis of linguistic landscape data. This framework is applied to a sample of 2,444 signs collected in 28 survey areas in central Tokyo. Analytical categories include the languages contained and their combinations, differences between official and nonofficial signs, geographic distribution, availability of translation or transliteration, linguistic idiosyncrasies, and the comparison of older and newer signs, among others. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, the analysis yields some unique insights about the writers of multilingual signs, their readers, and the languages and scripts in contact. Linguistic Landscapes thus demonstrates that the study of language on signs has much to contribute to research into urban multilingualism, as well as the study of language and society as a whole.…

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Title
Linguistic Landscapes
Author
Peter Backhaus
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd, GB
Publication year
2006
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Language
English
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1853599468
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9781853599460
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Book 96 of 141: Multilingual Matters

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