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Wai Sheng Woo; Patricia Nora Riget – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This article presents the results of a small-scale study on the linguistic landscape in the two terminals of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Thirty-one digital photos of non-identical signs out of a total of 368 'top-down' signs identified in the public space were collected, and questionnaires were administered to airport users to gauge…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Multilingualism, Arabic, Chinese
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Wu, Hongmei; Techasan, Sethawut; Huebner, Thom – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Chinatowns around the world have been much studied in the linguistic landscape literature. The bulk of this research has focused on Western enclaves resulting from the Chinese diaspora of the Nineteenth Century, which share certain semiotic characteristics and histories. Less research has been conducted on Chinatowns in the East or on newly…
Descriptors: Signs, Language Planning, Semiotics, Neighborhoods