Development of Theoretical Principles for the Study of the Linguistic Landscape in the Context of Urban Multilingualism
Linguistic landscape studies have become an integral part of sociolinguistics over the past twenty years. In this article, an attempt is made to study the development of their theoretical principles which have not been the subject of special research. Based on various definitions of the term “lingui...
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description | Linguistic landscape studies have become an integral part of sociolinguistics over the past twenty years. In this article, an attempt is made to study the development of their theoretical principles which have not been the subject of special research. Based on various definitions of the term “linguistic landscape” found in the works of different years the article shows the evolution of research principles from quantitative, based mainly on the statistical study of the representation of languages, to complex ones, which focus on the qualitative characteristics of languages functioning in public urban space. |
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spelling | doaj.art-8295360aaf62435e8a7a41cad7192e382023-10-16T09:19:56ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices2618-897X2618-89882023-09-0120342643510.22363/2618-897X-2023-20-3-426-43521140Development of Theoretical Principles for the Study of the Linguistic Landscape in the Context of Urban MultilingualismViacheslav V. Ivanov0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0756-0820Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of SciencesLinguistic landscape studies have become an integral part of sociolinguistics over the past twenty years. In this article, an attempt is made to study the development of their theoretical principles which have not been the subject of special research. Based on various definitions of the term “linguistic landscape” found in the works of different years the article shows the evolution of research principles from quantitative, based mainly on the statistical study of the representation of languages, to complex ones, which focus on the qualitative characteristics of languages functioning in public urban space.https://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/36359/22674linguistic landscapeurban multilingualismsociolinguistics |
spellingShingle | Viacheslav V. Ivanov Development of Theoretical Principles for the Study of the Linguistic Landscape in the Context of Urban Multilingualism Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices linguistic landscape urban multilingualism sociolinguistics |
title | Development of Theoretical Principles for the Study of the Linguistic Landscape in the Context of Urban Multilingualism |
title_full | Development of Theoretical Principles for the Study of the Linguistic Landscape in the Context of Urban Multilingualism |
title_fullStr | Development of Theoretical Principles for the Study of the Linguistic Landscape in the Context of Urban Multilingualism |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of Theoretical Principles for the Study of the Linguistic Landscape in the Context of Urban Multilingualism |
title_short | Development of Theoretical Principles for the Study of the Linguistic Landscape in the Context of Urban Multilingualism |
title_sort | development of theoretical principles for the study of the linguistic landscape in the context of urban multilingualism |
topic | linguistic landscape urban multilingualism sociolinguistics |
url | https://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/36359/22674 |
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