An Exploration of Linguistic Landscape in Shenzhen from a Translanguaging Perspective

Yuxuan Cai

Abstract


Language landscape is an important part of urban landscape. With the development of globalization, the language landscape presents rich multi-modal features. It has been widely concerned by applied linguistics, sociology, psychology and other disciplines. As an economic and cultural metropolis in China, Shenzhen's public space presents vivid multilingual resources, which have been rarely studied in the past. From the perspective of translanguagingc practice, the author made a field research of the language landscape in Shenzhen by taking photos and videos. The results of this study will help to show people's understanding of local and globalization in Shenzhen. At the same time, through the exploration of the language landscape in Shenzhen, it promotes the combination of translation practice theory and language landscape research, and provides certain enlightenment for the formulation of language policy and the design of language landscape.


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Linguistics landscape; Translanguaging; Multilingual; Multimodal

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