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Linguistic Landscape LCD 205: Presented by Don Brosnan & Ayako Kumagai
Linguistic Landscape LCD 205: Presented by Don Brosnan & Ayako Kumagai
LCD 205
Presented by
Don Brosnan & Ayako Kumagai
Introduction
Linguistic Landscape is:
“The language of public road signs, advertising
billboards, street names, place names, commercial
shop signs, and public signs on government
buildings combines to form the linguistic
landscape of a given territory, region, or urban
agglomeration”.
(Goter and Cenoz Introduction: The Study of the Linguistic Landscape as a New Approach to Multilingualism)
Background information on
Elmhurst
• “Immigration officials
have described
Elmhurst as the city‘s
most ethnically
diverse
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(Kleinman, Dena. " A HOSPITAL WHERE
ETHNIC CHANGE IS CONSTANT" )
Demographics
Race Number Percent
Hispanic/Latino 45,529 43.1%
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Conclusion
When we try to summarize the order of
dominance of the three languages, we see
that English is by far the most prominent
language in the linguistic landscape of
Elmhurst, followed by Chinese as the
second language and in third place comes
“9”other languages; Korean, Indonesian,
Vietnamese, Thai, Bengali, Arabic,
Spanish, Burmese and Nepali.