BETA
Linguistic Landscape Lower Lusatia
What is the Linguistic Landscape?
The term Linguistic Landscape was first associated with the study of language on signs by the scholars Rodrigue Landry and Richard Y. Bourhis in 1997. They defined the Linguistic Landscape as:
The language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildingsā¦
(Landry and Bourhis 1997, 25)
There have since been many further definitions given by various scholars but Coulmasā (2009) definition, is quite concise and serves as the basis for this project. It reads:
The study of writing in the public sphere
(Coulmas 2009, 14)