Language Landscape Research Articles

Linguistic landscape in russian-speaking schools of Visaginas

The article describes the sociolinguistic situation in Visaginas, while also introducing the main theoretical provisions and terms of sociolinguistics (sociolinguistic situation, language policy, linguistic landscape, enculturation, etc.). The analytical part examines specific data – cultural signs compiled in the Russian-speaking schools in Visaginas – allowing the linguistic landscape to be examined through the lens of enculturation. The linguistic landscape analysis and the comparison approach were applied within the course of work. 1,142 units ‒ symbols of Russian and Lithuanian cultures compiled in three educational institutions with the Russian language of tuition – were analyzed. The material that had been classified in accordance with the groups (visual, complex, textual signs) allowed us to establish the predominance of the Lithuanian culture in the educational institutions of Visaginas Town. It also showed the presence of the signs of culture of different types.The importance of this research stems from the understudied language landscape, particularly in educational institutions. Furthermore, it should be noted that the educational linguistic environment of Visaginas has never been studied before.

Analyzing and Strategizing the Emergency Language Landscape: A Case Study of Sanya City, China

The construction of language landscape for urban emergency services is an important part of public services. As a current city for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, Sanya City has a unique natural environment and is also a hotbed of various natural disasters in island cities. The challenges faced by emergency language services in Sanya City are not only how to effectively communicate emergency information to domestic citizens, but also how to cross language and cultural differences to ensure that all tourists can understand and follow emergency instructions. Against this background, it is of great significance to study the emergency language landscape of Sanya City.

Recreating the Poetics of the Landscape of the Asya Novel by I. S. Turgenev in the Kyrgyz Language

The subject of this study is the Kyrgyz text of the translation of the Asya story and its original. The article uses the method of comparative analysis to compare the style of the Asya story by I. S. Turgenev with his translation into the Kyrgyz language, carried out by professional translator Murzabek Omurzakov, in the aspect of recreating landscape sketches. The purpose of the study is to identify stylistic deviations of the translation text from the original and evaluate the transformation of epithets and lexemes denoting natural phenomena. As a result of the study, it is determined that the artistic originality of the original is not adequately reflected in the translation, and deviations from the stylistic features of the original are identified. Frequent repetitions are indicated, which reduced the beauty and poetry of the original narrative. Also, as a result of the analysis, the attitude of the author of the translation is revealed, which led to the substitution of concepts and epithets; a number of verbs with the meaning of the attribute are weakened and are not reproduced. It was also possible to find out how to convey such aspects of the landscape in the Kyrgyz language as the reflection of light and color shades. The author of the translation, using equivalent lexemes, recreates with maximum accuracy the poetics of the landscape as an artistic form. The results obtained have practical significance in teaching Russian literature courses at schools and universities.

Technology’s Influence on the Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Literature: A Transformative Force and a Formidable Challenge

This study sheds light on the intricate ways technology is reshaping the landscape of metaphorical language in contemporary writing. It delves into the burgeoning trend of aesthetics heavily influenced by technology. By meticulously analyzing a curated collection of visually captivating digital images, the study explores how technical language is used to craft these images and how digital constructs imbue them with a unique character.Furthermore, the study goes beyond imagery, comprehensively examining the influence of technology on characterization and plot structure within contemporary novels. It acknowledges the emergence of characters and narrative elements that are fundamentally driven by technology, exploring how these innovations are shaping the way stories are told and experienced by readers. Ultimately, the study highlights the transformative potential of technology. It recognizes how technology can enrich and expand the metaphorical repertoire available to contemporary writers. However, it also acknowledges the challenges that technology presents in terms of maintaining the nuance and authenticity of language, as well as the potential for the erosion of traditional linguistic values.

Role of Tourism in Preservation and Support of Minority Languages: Russian and Global Context

This article explores the role of tourism in the preservation and support of minority languages in Russia, focusing on the Karelian, Tatar, and Buryat languages. The study is framed within the methodological scope of language commodification research, language landscape, and language economy. Fieldwork data from Tatarstan, Karelia, and Buryatia in 2021, 2022, and 2024, as well as findings from other researchers, form the basis of this investigation. The article highlights the uneven use of minority languages as a tool for ethnographic branding from region to region. The authors conclude that minority languages exist in the language landscape through the naming of various realities, from toponyms to gastronomic terms, serving ethnographic branding and symbolic functions by providing specific words and morphemes. Contrary to expectations, tourism does not contribute to an increase in the number of speakers of minority languages or their use in discourse, both in Russia and globally. However, the increased presence of these languages in public spaces, including for marketing purposes, indirectly enhances their prestige and aids in their normalization.

A Multimodal Analysis of the Linguistic Landscape of Guilin: City as a World-Class Tourism

The study of language landscape has always been the focus of linguistic research, but there are few studies on the world-class tourism language landscape in minority areas. Guilin has always been one of the hottest world-class tourism destinations, with its unique minority character. From the perspectives of multimodal analysis and tourism language landscape construction, this paper discussed the language landscape characteristics of Longyin Road and East-West Lane scenic spots with different orientations and investigated the local people's attitudes towards multilingual signs. The study found that the majority of signs are monolingual and bilingual, predominantly in Chinese and English. Non-textual elements significantly complemented the linguistic landscape, highlighting the need for accurate and diverse multilingual signage to enhance Guilin's world-class tourism image.

Interplay of academic emotion regulation, academic mindfulness, L2 learning experience, academic motivation, and learner autonomy in intelligent computer-assisted language learning: A study of EFL learners

In the evolving landscape of second language (L2) education, Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) stands out as a transformative force with the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Despite its growing prominence, integrating cognitive and affective constructs such as academic emotion regulation and mindfulness remains underexplored in ICALL environments. This study addresses this gap by examining their interplay with L2 learning experience, academic motivation, and learner autonomy among Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Drawing on data from 398 intermediate EFL learners, this research utilized a comprehensive array of validated instruments, including the Academic Emotional Regulation Questionnaire, the Langer Mindfulness Scale, the L2 Learning Experience Scale, the Academic Motivation Scale, and the Learner Autonomy Questionnaire. Structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed significant correlations, indicating that academic emotion regulation positively influences L2 learning experience, academic motivation, and learner autonomy within ICALL settings. Furthermore, academic mindfulness emerged as a robust predictor of these educational outcomes in ICALL environments. These findings underscore the pivotal role of ICALL in L2 education and offer practical insights for teachers, curriculum developers, and policymakers to enhance teaching and learning practices.

Exploration of Language Landscape and Optimization Strategies in Beijing's South Luogu Lane

South Luogu Lane is the oldest neighborhood in Beijing, preserving the architectural style of the Yuan Dynasty's alleyways, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists. This study focuses on the official and private language landscapes of its main street. Through field visits and photographic documentation, the authors found that the national language dominates, accompanied by English translations, facilitating foreign tourists. However, there are issues of inconsistency and lack of uniformity in the language landscape, such as inconsistent positioning and font sizes. These problems affect the cultural image of South Luogu Lane. Therefore, the authors propose optimization strategies to strengthen the protection of the cultural landscape and promote the sustainable development of South Luogu Lane. The authors hope that these measures will enhance the cultural value of South Luogu Lane, provide a better experience for tourists, and promote its influence as a cultural symbol of Beijing.

연변 조선족 자치주의 언어경관 연구

The purpose of this paper is to provide a foundation and the solution for development of the language landscape by analyzing the publicly available language landscape data of the Yanbian Korean-Chinese Autonomous Prefecture, which shows the appearance of a multilingual society. Due to the recent change in the language policy of the Yanbian Korean-Chinese Autonomous Prefecture, the signage regulations have been newly changed, which is expected to have a great impact on the language landscape of the region as well as the usage pattern of the language. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to secure comparative data with future changes by analyzing the language landscape at this point in time from various perspectives. The survey consisted of three regions, Yanji, Hunchun, and Helong, which differed in population distribution and economic development to some extent, and statistically analyzed the aspects of code selection and arrangement, and dealt with the language status, language norms, and translation issues that appeared in the combination of Korean and Chinese languages. Through regional contrast and analysis, the basis of the language landscape was revealed, and the direction of the development of the language landscape was suggested. This paper is expected to be used as an important material for historical sociolinguistic research and the establishment of national resident language policies.

A Content Analysis of Exploring Trends and Dynamics of English Language Pedagogy in Engineering Departments

English language pedagogy has shifted from a broad to a specialized pattern in the past several decades. The aim of the present study is to examine the pedagogical landscape of the English language in engineering departments. The study demonstrates a remarkable prevalence of authors, focusing on the significance of independent investigation in the field by assessing various aspects such as authorship, years of publication, involvement of the countries where the studies were conducted, and the methodologies employed in the studies. A temporal analysis reveals an emphasis on studies during 2020-2022, suggesting increased concern and responsiveness to specific issues in English pedagogy in engineering departments. In terms of countries, Indonesia, China, and Malaysia emerge as substantial contributors, highlighting their dynamic involvement in English language instruction in engineering departments. Qualitative methodologies dominate, acknowledging the nuanced nature of language teaching in engineering and enabling a profound exploration of instructional intricacies. In summary, this content analysis provides insights into the distribution, trends, and preferences in teaching English in engineering fields. The prevalence of individual authorship, temporal clustering, geographical concentrations, and the dominance of qualitative methods collectively enrich the understanding of this dynamic research landscape.

Investigation of Visual Language Landscape of Tourist Attractions from Multimodal Perspective

With the development of economic globalization, the tourism industry has been welcomed by the public. The visual language landscape of tourist attractions can not only assist tourists to play and watch the project, but if it is properly planned, the language landscape can also become a major feature and highlight of the scenic spot. Therefore, how to set up and construct the visual language landscape of tourist attractions is a problem that needs to be considered in each region. In response to the above problems, on the basis of understanding the concept types of the visual language landscape of tourist attractions, this article conducts in-depth research and investigation on the visual language landscape of tourist attractions, combining the evaluation dataset in the multimodal perspective and the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) –Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) model based on semantic regularization. This article conducted a comparative experiment on each model on the NUS-WIDE dataset and the MS-COCO dataset. The experimental results showed that it was crucial to give full play to the expressive power of the CNN. Compared to the NUS-WIDE dataset, the MS-COCO dataset brought less additional boost by leveraging social media tags. The CIDEr score of the CNN-RNN model based on semantic regularization was improved by 11.4%, which placed the foundation for the investigation and analysis of the linguistic landscape of tourist attractions.

Старомонгольская письменность в Байкальском регионе на современном этапе: курс на ревитализацию?

This paper aims to provide an analysis of the development of the Mongolian script in the sociocultural context of the Baikal region in modern times. The main purpose of this article is to characterize the key trends in society from the point of view of sociolinguistic processes. Materials and methods. The research is based on a thorough examination of official data from the Government of the Republic of Buryatia, government departments of the Irkutsk region and Transbaikal region, as well as publications in the media and field materials gathered through an expert survey of heads of educational centers and language activists. The authors have adopted a systematic approach and applied a range of general scientific and special methods, including comparative historical and statistical methods, to conduct this study. Results and conclusions. It has been revealed that the Mongolian script has significant role in performing various socio-cultural functions. Mongolian script has gained widespread popularity in the form of calligraphy in the Baikal region. Furthermore, the language is deeply embedded with ethno cultural symbolism, making it a valuable source for the development of the Buryat language and culture as a whole. There is a growing interest in analyzing the language situation in Mongolia and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, particularly in terms of the implementation of state language policy in perspective. The status and functional role of Mongolian script in these regions are of utmost importance in understanding its impact on the overall language landscape.

Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles

The expression problem describes how most types can easily be extended with new ways to produce the type or new ways to consume the type, but not both. When abstract syntax trees are defined as an algebraic data type, for example, they can easily be extended with new consumers, such as print or eval , but adding a new constructor requires the modification of all existing pattern matches. The expression problem is one way to elucidate the difference between functional or data-oriented programs (easily extendable by new consumers) and object-oriented programs (easily extendable by new producers). This difference between programs which are extensible by new producers or new consumers also exists for dependently typed programming, but with one core difference: Dependently-typed programming almost exclusively follows the functional programming model and not the object-oriented model, which leaves an interesting space in the programming language landscape unexplored. In this paper, we explore the field of dependently-typed object-oriented programming by deriving it from first principles using the principle of duality. That is, we do not extend an existing object-oriented formalism with dependent types in an ad-hoc fashion, but instead start from a familiar data-oriented language and derive its dual fragment by the systematic use of defunctionalization and refunctionalization. Our central contribution is a dependently typed calculus which contains two dual language fragments. We provide type- and semantics-preserving transformations between these two language fragments: defunctionalization and refunctionalization. We have implemented this language and these transformations and use this implementation to explain the various ways in which constructions in dependently typed programming can be explained as special instances of the general phenomenon of duality.

An Analysis on the Typicality of Language Landscape in North China Electric Power University

This paper takes the typical language landscape of the campus of North China Electric Power University as the research object. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and explore the emergence of the problematic language landscape of the university campus found in the field investigation and investigation of the team. The top-down language landscape of the campus is investigated, summarized and analyzed from the aspects of the combination form, arrangement mode, naming mode and function of the code.

Filipino non-native English-speaking teachers and the contradictions in their own backyard

Abstract This paper uses content analysis to analyse a set of websites of English language teaching companies in the Philippines and highlights the contradictions between the language ideologies espoused, advertised language policies, and recruitment of local non-native English-speaking teachers. The study highlights trends in recruitment that contrast with language ideologies, thus demonstrating a bias against local teachers, whilst supporting notions of native speakerism and discounted nativeness. The augmentation of non-native English-speaking teachers in ELT institutions in Asia is reflected in the Philippines, which has become a prominent centre of English language teaching in the region. It would be an encouraging development in attitudes and policy within ELT private schools if the increase in NNEST employment was related to a recognition of how the English language landscape in the 21st century is evolving, yet it seems apparent that economic factors are the motivating force as native speakerism maintains its prominence.

Sprachenvielfalt von Bratislava. Eine Linguistic Landscape-Analyse am Beispiel der Michalská- und der Zelená-Straße

The empirical study presents the quantitative representation of languages in the investigated areas – Michalská and Zelena Street – in the linguistic landscape of Bratislava. At the same time, it emphasizes the necessity of further qualitative data analysis with regard to the perception of individual languages – present in the language landscape under study – by a specific type of recipient. Important evaluation criteria in the analysis process are (1) the visual accessibility of the sign, (2) the rate of distribution of the sign in the investigated area and (3) the classification of the sign (top-down vs. bottom-up signs).

Silk Road Concerto: Spatial Narratives of Architectural Cultural Heritage and Linguistic Landscapes in Xinjiang

Abstract The Silk Road is another important international trade route emerging in Eurasia, and Xinjiang, as an important node of the Silk Road, is of great significance in effectively sorting out and studying the architectural cultural heritage of Xinjiang. This paper tries to introduce the concept of spatial grouping in the exploration of the conservation method of Xinjiang’s architectural and cultural heritage and deeply excavate the spatial grouping relationship between each heritage point from the spatial perspective. It combines the quantitative analysis method of space syntax and topological calculation to provide a novel method and thought for studying the spatial narrative of architectural cultural heritage and its linguistic landscape in Xinjiang. The architectural cultures of Marathi Grassland, Sayram Lake, and Kanas Lake in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are selected as the research objects, and the linguistic landscapes are divided into two dimensions of official and private linguistic landscapes for specific analysis. In the evaluation of the spatial perception of cultural architecture in Xinjiang, the weight of the permeability factor consisting of four dimensions, namely width, size, dynamics, and enclosure, is 0.6579, which verifies the feasibility of quantitative research and provides a supplement based on subjective visual perception. It is also found that both the official and private language landscapes have the national common language as the dominant language, and the language landscapes of instructional function, behavioral regulation function, and cognitive function have a larger proportion. In contrast, the other languages provide convenience for foreign tourists to a certain extent.

Parallelism in ancient Turkish sources and their poetic landscape in the prose language of Ramiz Rovshan

Parallelism in ancient Turkish sources and their poetic landscape in the prose language of Ramiz Rovshan

AI Based Speech Analysis Framework

The pioneering AI-Based Speech Analysis Framework presented in this research paper was painstakingly created to help people overcome linguistic obstacles, notably in the context of English language communication. Through a thorough speech analysis, the framework's multimodal approach enables real-time evaluation of emotional state, fluency, stress levels, and even identification recognition. This framework delivers a sophisticated and perceptive interpretation of spoken language by utilizing cutting-edge artificial intelligence approaches, hence promoting an enhanced and successful communication experience. The study is focused on four significant sub-objectives, each of which advances the main objective of encouraging increased self-awareness and communication: First, by detecting subtly emotional indicators embedded in the voice, the framework transforms emotional assessment. The AI algorithms identify emotional patterns, such as enthusiasm, trepidation, or tranquility. This in-the-moment emotional analysis creates opportunities for tailored communication techniques and a greater understanding of the speaker's feelings. The framework also introduces a novel way for assessing fluency levels using voice analysis. It analyzes various facets of speech, such as pace, intonation, and lexical decisions, giving language learners immediate feedback on their level of linguistic proficiency. This makes it easier to make focused improvements and to move more easily toward effective communication. The framework also discusses the complex relationship between stress and good communication. It measures stress levels through vocal pattern analysis, offering light on instances of heightened tension or anxiety when speaking. Such knowledge enables people to overcome stress-related hurdles and enhance communication. The framework's capacity to accurately identify people based on distinctive voice traits lies at the heart of its innovation. Language limitations are no obstacle to this identity recognition technology, which provides an effective and secure method of identification in a variety of settings. Voice-based identification detection accelerates procedures and promotes inclusion in a variety of settings, including work settings and public services. The development of an AI-Based Speech Analysis Framework that reveals fresh angles in language evaluation and communication improvement is the culmination of this research. It not only encourages self-improvement but also highlights the revolutionary potential of AI in redefining language landscapes and promoting true connections by merging emotional, fluency, stress analysis, and identity identification through voice.

The Research of Urban Language Landscape and Strategies for Improving City Image—Taking the Slogans of Tea Culture in Yibin for Example

The Research of Urban Language Landscape and Strategies for Improving City Image—Taking the Slogans of Tea Culture in Yibin for Example