Carson Fleming Ling 343 Linguistic Landscape of Dublin Transportation Dublin, Ireland is a small but growing city. In the recent years it has developed into a multicultural city. In the Dublin city center there is a wide range of different people and cultures. Although Dublin is growing into a more cultural and diverse city, it […]
Linguistic Landscape in New York City’s Koreatown: For my project on linguistic landscapes, I choose to analyze Manhattan’s Koreatown. Koreatown is a small area comprised of just a few blocks, compared to the city’s more well-known and large ethnic enclaves such as Chinatown and Little Italy. Centered in Midtown, Koreatown is located right beside the […]
Founded in 1965, Singapore is a relatively young country. Because of British colonization, Singapore’s official language is English, and every child is required to receive English education. However, because a large number of people moved from China in the 1960s, Chinese and Cantonese became two important everyday languages. And because Singapore was once subordinated to […]
With its growing economy and diverse population, Hong Kong provides the perfect environment for cultural diversity. Hong Kong citizens have incorporated many of the different into their daily lives. Throughout the city, there are evidences of cultural diversity especially in the language spoken and the signs. In Hong Kong, the majority of the population speaks […]
As one of the most international and multicultural societies, Singapore clearly demonstrates its multilingual characteristic as the result of vicissitudes in its history and culture, and therefore reflects the co-existence of diverse races and inheritance. Because of the policy encouragement and economic needs, Singapore has developed a unique language system with English as the main […]
The United States of American has one of the most racially and ethnically diverse population. The languages used in the United States is even more complex, so complex that there is actually no official language in the United States at the federal level. The linguistic landscape in New York City is especially interesting because linguistic […]
Language Landscape of Singaporean Public Transport matthew beech
Yiqing Hu Since Tokyo is a metropolitan city that attracts hundreds of thousands of travelers from around the world, many signs on the road multiple languages, such as English, Chinese, and Korean. While you can see different languages, you can also hear multiple languages, not from the tourists, but from the announcers in the street […]
Tariq Khan LING-343-1 Japan is one of the most ethnically homogenous countries in the world, with 98.1% of the population being ethnically Japanese (CIA Factbook, 2016). Estimates show that there are about 125 million native Japanese speakers (Wikipedia, 2010), in a country of just over 126 million (CIA Factbook, 2016), meaning that over 99% […]
The unique ethnic and multilingual nature in Singapore is fascinating yet sometimes perplexing. It is more culturally diverse than I had remembered and imagined; somehow everyone, including local Singaporeans, temporary expatriates, as well as immigrants from neighboring Asian countries, are able to make up this rather peaceful, tiny, multilingual country. Despite this “melting pot”, the […]