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Stefano Presutti – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
In an increasingly globalised and multilingual world, the use of different scripts in the same semiotic landscape is an increasingly frequent and widespread phenomenon. For this reason, it is vital to conduct research focusing on multiscriptality in order to better understand the linguistic and semiotic functions of the use of multiple scripts…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Scripts, Alphabets, Slavic Languages
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Tae-Sik Kim; Jong-Soo Ahn – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study analyses the multilingual linguistic landscapes made up of languages, visual materials, and built environments in Seongsu-dong, where old industrial sites and new commercial places are indiscriminately juxtaposed. This study focuses particularly on (1) how languages are associated with different built environments of new commercial…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Languages, Visual Aids, Language Role
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Al-Naimat, Ghazi Khaleel; Alomoush, Omar Ibrahim – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This article investigates the interrelationship between English used on signs and materiality in the linguistic landscape (LL) of a touristic Jordanian town, Petra. Its aim is to analyze how the materials that signs are made of reflect recurrent practices of identity formation and numerous socio-cultural norms in the Jordanian tourism context. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Alphabets
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Backhaus, Peter – Visible Language, 2007
This paper examines the prominence of written English on shop signs in Japan. Based on data from a larger empirical study into multilingual signs in Tokyo, the most common ways of using English and the roman alphabet on Japanese shops signs are identified. It is argued that the ambivalent nature of English loan words plays a key role in the ever…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Alphabets, Multilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Cardoso-Martins, Claudia; Rodrigues, Larissa A.; Linnea C. Ehri, Linnea C. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2003
This study investigated the knowledge and strategies that nonliterate adults use to identify print. Participants were 20 low-socioeconomic status Brazilian adults ranging in age from 20 to 74 years. Participants' ability to identify common environmental signs displaying varying degrees of contextual information was investigated along with their…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Low Income Groups, Beginning Reading
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Visible Language, 1979
Describes research projects and experiments in graphic design conducted at a number of colleges and universities. (GT)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Design, Educational Games, Experiments