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Direct linkRan An; Yanyan Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
A region's identity is closely related to its semiotic landscape as well as history, economy and culture. This article explores the linguistic landscape of Jianghan Road, a historical business centre in Wuhan, P. R. China, by photographing and analysing 1308 official and unofficial signs in order to provide a snapshot of language choice and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Geographic Regions, Language Usage, Photography
Susan Gary Walters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Nuosu script, a unique character-based script with a long history, permeates the public spaces of Xichang, the capital of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China. Using interviews, photos, observations, and documents, this qualitative study discovers the uses and meanings of Nuosu script in the linguistic landscape (LL). The…
Descriptors: Written Language, Geographic Regions, Sociocultural Patterns, Accuracy
Kim, Ujin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Xinjiang has witnessed constant state attempts to reinforce the status of Mandarin Chinese as 'the Common Language' and to make local Turkic languages -- mainly Uyghur and Kazak -- more 'suitable' to the modern world. Official efforts to transform the linguistic landscape of Xinjiang have engaged in a complex interplay with Turkic speakers' own…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese, Official Languages, Turkic Languages
Soldat-Jaffe, Tatjana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This article investigates to what extent the European Union (EU) has the means to protect minority and regional languages in the EU, looking at the ways three different bodies of the EU, the European Parliament (EP), the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) differ in handling language…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Civil Rights, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Ehala, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
This paper provides a broad comparative summary of all the cases addressed in the Special Issue "Hot and cold ethnicities in post-Soviet space." The aim of the summary is to pinpoint the major features that have an impact on the ethnic temperatures in the social settings studied. This paper argues that ethnic, national, civic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity, Self Concept
Polese, Abel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The end of the cold war prompted most of the former Soviet republics to face ethnic issues that had remained latent or intangible for decades. Whilst some ethnic groups were actively campaigning for their rights, some others seemed uninterested in being represented politically. The recent theory of hot and cold ethnicity has been conceived to…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Ethnic Groups
