Linguistic Landscape Study at Maitreyawira School in Medan

Abstract

This research focuses on linguistic landscape (LL) study at Maitreyawira School Medan with the objectives to identify the various language used in terms of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual and also to describe the characteristics based on Cenoz and Gorter theory. Qualitative method was applied in this research with words, phrase s, and sentence s of the sign as primary data, and the contexts such as font, colors, size of text are secondary. The result shows that English, Indonesian, and Mandarin was found, those language was official language at Maitreyawira School. In terms of bilingual and multilingual, the language combination was found namely Indonesian-English , Mandarin-English , and Mandarin-English-Indonesian . The characteristics of the language analyzed by four indicators; The order of language, the size of text, the font of text, and translation in bi/multilingual sign. The result shows that English and Mandarin as language appear firstly are many found from the total of sign. The size and font of text mostly have a same value, and the type of translation is full translation. Keywords : Linguistics landscape, Multilingual sign, Maitreyawira School