linguistic landscape

Switching or selecting? Competing and/or Complementary Perspectives on Discourse Markers in Multilingual Conversations.

Discourse Markers (DMs) are particularly susceptible to borrowing between languages and several approaches can provide a framework to analyse speech in multilingual contexts. This paper examines a structural and a pragmatic-functional perspective: …

Language contact in writing: exploring the linguistic landscape of Mauritius.

Building on Bosquet-Ballah’s (2015) work, this small-scale study takes both a quantitative and qualitative approach to the linguistic landscape to investigate whether place affects the languages present. Sample areas in Port Louis, the capital, …

The role of French in the Linguistic Landscape of the German-speaking Community of Belgium

This study investigates the Linguistic Landscape (LL) within the German-speaking Community of Belgium with a focus on the role of French. Through examining the signs present in the towns of Eupen (north) and Sankt Vith (south), it contrasts the …