Chinatown in Washington, DC: The bilingual landscapeØ  

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LOU, JACKIE JIA

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 31 no. 1 (Mar. 2012), page 34-47.
Fulltext: p. 34-47.pdf (1.14MB)

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Originated as a new approach to multilingualism, research on linguistic landscapes has typically focused on the varieties of language inscribed on the surface of a particular place. As this original conceptualization and its associated methodology have not always sufficed to capture the sociolinguistic complexities of contemporary urban environments, recent researchers have called for a more contextualized approach to linguistic landscapes. Drawing on Lefebvre and Scollon and Scollon, this paper suggests that the linguistic landscapes might be considered with reference to a triadic model of place and spatial representation. This model is applied to reevaluate the bilingual landscape ofWashington DC’s Chinatown, with a particular focus on the multiple roles played by the English language in shaping and navigating the multilingual environment.de=

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