The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19

Lou, Jackie Jia; Malinowski, David; Peck, Amiena

doi:10.1075/ll.00031.int

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“…Topics that have not been discussed in the Indonesian LL are, for example, COVID-19 as the ones conducted by Chesnut et al (2023), Ferenčík & Bariová (2023), Im (2023), Kalocsányiová et al (2022), Lou et al (2022), Phyak (2022) and online linguistic landscape exemplified by Biró (2018), Hiippala et al (2019), andIvkovic andLotherington (2009). Hence, these two areas are open widely for researchers to explore regarding the Indonesian LL studies.…”

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Muslim majority yet without preference for Arabic: Mapping linguistic landscape studies in Indonesia

Rohmah,

Basthomi,

Sholihah

2024

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Linguistic Landscape (LL) research has explored signage in various public places in the world, including Indonesia. However, since there has been no comprehensive review of LL studies in Indonesia, the current article seeks to identify trends in LL research in Indonesia. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) method was applied to analyze thirty-one LL articles coming out from the open knowledge maps application. The findings suggest that there is a steady increase in the number of LL studies in Indonesia apparent starting from the year of 2017 based on the obtained data from eleven provinces. More bottom-up signs were found mostly using quantitative approaches. The findings also reveal that the Indonesian language dominates signs in the LL studies followed by English. Interestingly, although Indonesia has the biggest number of Muslim citizens in the world, Arabic is used more often than English only in two locations of LL studies, namely the tomb of Sunan Ampel and the City of Mataram. Issues often discussed in the LL studies are multilingualism, micro-analysis of linguistics, and broader issues, namely powerandsolidarity, identity, and ideology. Future researchers may focus more on qualitative analysis of LL studies, and relates LL studies with promising topics on geo-linguistics, management of halal food, ecology and culture, inequality and economic mobility, health issues, minority language, media in ELT, and online/virtual LL as well as language contestation related to the abovementioned issues.

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Section: Focal Issues Associated With Ll Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim majority yet without preference for Arabic: Mapping linguistic landscape studies in Indonesia

Rohmah,

Basthomi,

Sholihah

2024

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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“…The need to investigate the changes taking place in the LL arises from the awareness of how the "linguistic landscape, with its longstanding focus on the role of language and other semiotic resources in the construction of public spaces [...] is a crucial nexus of meaning-making in the COVID-19 pandemic" (Lou et al, 2021). This evidence has prompted numerous scholars to explore, for example, translation choices and accessibility issues to information related to the pandemic (Hopkyns and Van den Hoven, 2021;Lees, 2021), linguistic, and semiotic strategies adopted for commercial or regulatory purposes (Ahmad and Hillman, 2021;Strandberg, 2021), as well as the emergence of new discourses in different linguistic and semiotic landscapes.…”

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“Everything will be all right (?)”: Discourses on COVID-19 in the Italian linguistic landscape

Bagna

Bellinzona

2023

Front. Commun.

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The study of the linguistic landscape (LL) focuses on the representations of languages on signs placed in the public space and on the ways in which individuals interact with these elements. Regulatory, infrastructural, commercial, and transgressive discourses, among others, emerge in these spaces, overlapping, complementing, or opposing each other, reflecting changes taking place and, in turn, influencing them. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of life, including cities, neighborhoods, and spaces in general. Against this background, the study of the LL is fundamental not only to better understand the ways in which places have changed and how people are interpreting and experiencing them but also to analyze the evolution of COVID-19 discourses since the pandemic broke out. This contribution aims to investigate how and in what terms the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the Italian LL, considered both in its entirety, as a single body that, regardless of local specificities, responded to and jointly reflected on the shared shock, and specifically, assuming the city of Florence as a case study. The data collected in the three main phases of the pandemic include photographs of virtual and urban LL signs and interviews, which were analyzed through qualitative content analysis with the aim of exploring citizens' perceptions and awareness of changes in the LL of their city. The results obtained offer a photograph of complex landscapes and ecologies, which are multimodal, multi-layered, and interactive, with public and private discourses that are strongly intertwined and often complementary. Furthermore, the diachronic analysis made it possible to identify, on the one hand, points in common with the communication strategies in the different phases, both at a commercial and regulatory level. On the other hand, strong differences emerged in the bottom-up representations, characterized in the first phase by discourses of resilience, tolerance, hope, solidarity, and patriotism, and in the second and third phases by disillusionment, despair, and protest.

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“…The effects of the global uniformity of signage have been clearly demonstrated, for instance during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a rapid makeover of linguistic landscapes (e.g. Hopkyns & Van den Hoven, 2022;Lou et al, 2022;Marshall, 2021). The new signs that appeared almost overnight in urban environments showed some local differences and had some unique characteristics, but at the same time there were remarkable similarities in the messages they conveyed (keep a distance, wear a mask, wash your hands, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%