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By Sarah McMonagle and Lisa Marie Brinkmann Even the most blasé observer will be struck by Armenia’s linguistic landscapes. Written Armenian applies the Armenian alphabet – a unique writing system developed some 1600 years ago. To assist those not au fait with this script, street and informational signage is often rendered in the Latin alphabet.Continue reading “Հայաստան[1]: Cultural richness in semiotic landscapes”

Japan, a country slightly larger in area than the U.K, is considerably longer: It stretches for more than 3,000km Northwest to Southeast. If you were to overlay Japan on a map of Europe, tip-to-tip it would reach from Spain to Norway. Yet the only widely-spoken common language in the country is Japanese. Almost every JapaneseContinue reading “Cool guy – or Linguistic landscapes in Japan / 「冷奴」あるいは日本の言語景観, by Mayo Oyama”

A paisagem linguística de Maputo é particularmente interessante por várias razões. Em primeiro lugar, porque, tal como muitas cidades africanas, trata-se de um centro urbano implantado numa zona multilingue, onde converge uma grande variedade de línguas: não só o Português e várias línguas bantu – com maior destaque para o Changana e o Ronga –Continue reading “Paisagem linguística da cidade de Maputo (Moçambique), por Perpétua Gonçalves”

This photograph, taken a few blocks away from Princeton University campus,  depicts a store offering multiple services: cellphones, wire transfers, tax filing. While Spanish signs are prevalent, the English words “income taxes” unmistakably situate this sociolinguistic scene in the United States. In the culture of mobility that is the hallmark of late capitalism, the migrantsContinue reading “­­Sociolinguistic landscapes of Princeton (New Jersey), by Mariana Bono”

Bangladeshis, just like some other communities around the world, sacrificed their lives for the right to speak their mother language: Bangla. On 21st February, 1952, some brave souls of this land including Rafiq, Shafiq, Barkat, Salam, Jabbar and Shafiur sacrificed their life to protect Bangla and prevent Urdu from being the state language of EastContinue reading “The linguistic landscape of Bogra (Bangladesh), by Md. Sadequle Islam”

Tēnā koutou from Aotearoa New Zealand! Дякую to LoCALL for the opportunity to share the Wellington Translanguaging Project and our resource branch Translanguaging Aotearoa with you all. In 2016, I established the Wellington Translanguaging Project with Dr. Vincent Ieni Olsen-Reeder (Associate Investigator on the Project) with the goal of supporting Māori and Samoan children inContinue reading “Linguistic landscapes and translanguaging in Aotearoa (New Zealand), by Corinne A. Seals”