Covid-19 W Krajobrazie Językowym Włoch I Malezji

Abstract

This article looks at signs that have appeared in the linguistic landscape in Malaysia and in italy since the lockdown implemented in both countries in March 2020. The research is divided into two main parts, one analyzing the signs collected, and the other analyzing the answers provided by a sample of Malaysian and italian citizens to a survey on the languages used in these signs. After a general introduction to the COviD-19 crisis in the two countries, the article continues with a general overview of the linguistic landscape in Malaysia and italy and the methodology employed. There follows an analysis of both the signs and the answers provided in the surveys and a discussion, where the signs and the respondents' answers in the two countries are compared. even though some of the signs analyzed are very similar in Malaysia and italy, particularly the regulatory signs recommending the use of face masks, social distance, washing hands, etc., others have shown to be quite different. in italy, for example, they are more visible and detailed, whereas in Malaysia they tend to be more colourful. in some cases, the colours used on some signs in Malaysia subtly recall the national flag (red, blue, white and yellow), whereas light green/cyan and white were found on many signs in italy. with regard to the languages used, both countries feature only the national language (Malay in Malaysia and italian in italy) and english on their COviD-19 signs, but english is much more visible in Malaysia than in italy. introductionThe pandemic known as COviD-19 hit the whole world; starting from wuhan in China in December 2019 it spread rapidly all over five continents, infecting millions of people and killing nearly three and a half million (as of May 2021), especially the elderly, and people with previous medical conditions (wikipedia. 'COviD-19 pandemic'). COviD-19 arrived in Malaysia via singapore in late january 2020 with a handful of

A tale of three global cities: A comparative account of Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong’s multilingual repertoires evidenced in their Covidscapes as part of Covid-19 crisis and public health communication

“…Yet, the languages represented on the Covidscape are largely the more dominant ones. The observations made on Kuala Lumpur’s Covidscape in the current study to a large extent dovetail with Coluzzi and Riget (2022) ’s findings based on a relatively small corpus of signs (23 signs where 8 are discussed). From this perspective, the multilingual pandemic communication practices in Dubai and Kuala Lumpur are similar in nature.…”

“…street signs, commercial billboards, public notices, shop and restaurant signs, advertisements, graffiti and murals) in our (increasingly) diverse, multicultural, and multilingual society ( Landry & Bourhis, 1997 ) in a wide range of commercial, political, geographical, religious, sociocultural and institutional contexts (cf. Alomoush, 2023 ; Ben-Rafael et al, 2006 ; Blackwood & Tufi, 2015 ; Blommaert, 2013 ; Coluzzi & Kitade, 2015 ; Coluzzi & Riget, 2022 ; Gu & Almanna, 2023 ; Hopkyns & van den Hoven, 2022 ; Huebner, 2006 ; Gu, 2023a ; Gu, 2023b ; Lee, 2022a ; Lees, 2022 ; Li & Yang, 2023 ; Song, 2020 ; Spolsky & Cooper, 1991 ; Willans et al, 2020 ; Yan, 2023 ) in both developed and developing countries.…”

“…Despite the clear merits of these timely empirical studies, they tend to be one-off studies on individual places. As such, there has been a glaring lack of engagement with Covid-related linguistic landscapes from a comparative perspective, barring 2 recent studies by Coluzzi and Riget (2022) and Hopkyns and van den Hoven (2023) which compared the COVID-19 linguistic landscapes in Malaysia and Italy and in France and the UAE respectively.…”

„Leczenie COVID-19 u pacjenta” a „Nie lekceważmy zagrożenia 'koronką'"

“…Later, more studies followed focusing on science communication to lay audience (Hohaus 2022;Luzón Marco 2022;McClaughlin et al 2022) or politicisation of the topic (Wrześniewska-Pietrzak and Kołodziejczak 2022; Koca-Helvaci 2022). Language-wise, Coluzzi and Riget (2002) focused on Malasian and Italian contexts, Diget (2021) and Nygren and Olofsson (2021) on Swedish and Péteri (2021) on German and Hungarian ones. In Polishlanguage studies, Chojnacka-Kuraś and Falkowska (2023) and Duda and Ficek (2022) focused on the COVID-19 lexicon.…”