Abstract
The study of linguistic landscape (LL) has developed in the last ten years following the publication of Landry and Bourhis (1997) and has continued up to more recent works such as Gorter (2006) and Shohamy and Gorter (2009). LL studies regarding the use of languages in Spain have focused on the Basque country, and more specifically on the use of Spanish, Basque, and English in the city of Donostia-San Sebastian (Cenoz and Gorter, 2006). Regarding Catalan, several previous studies have described the use of Spanish and Catalan in public signs, but they were carried out mainly for practical reasons related to the implementation of language policy. This chapter builds on previous research on signage in public spaces in Barcelona by examining the LL of three streets. The results are discussed in relation to current studies that adopt a theoretical and descriptive perspective (e.g. Shohamy and Gorter, 2009).
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