English in the linguistic landscape of Suzhou

Creative, fluid and transgressive English practices in a Chinese city

Bibliographic Data

ID20356754
AuthorsSongqing Li (0000-0002-9667-9630, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume31
Issue1
Pages27-33
Publication date2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnglish Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-0784 • E-ISSN: 1474-0567
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0266078414000510
OpenAlexW2136179107
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited13

The concept of linguistic landscape (LL) covers all of the linguistic objects that mark the public space, i.e. any written sign one observes from road signs to advertising billboards, to the names of shops, streets or schools (Landry & Bourhis, 1997). Because it both shapes and is shaped by social and cultural associations (Ben-Rafael, 2009; Jaworski & Thurlow, 2010: 6–23), the LL has proved an important area for investigating the dynamics of major aspects of social life (e.g. Backhaus, 2006; Huebner, 2006; Curtin, 2009; Lado, 2011; Papen, 2012). One strand of this research is particularly concerned with the role of LL in relation to ethnolinguistic vitality that ‘makes a group likely to behave as a distinctive and active collective entity in intergroup relations’ (Giles, Bourhis & Taylor, 1977: 308). The higher the vitality an ethnolinguistic group enjoys, the more it will be able to use language so as to survive and thrive as a collective entity

Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Sociology · Vitality · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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