Linguistic Landscape of China—A Case Study of Shop Signs in Beijing

Jingjing WANG

Abstract


This study, focusing on the shop signs of Beijing, is a new attempt to investigate the multilingual environment of China. Sign related studies have been attracting many scholars’ and researchers’ attention in China, many of which focus solely on the topic of translation of public signs. This research first puts forward possible approaches to studying signs in China, then attempts to analyze the multilingual signs found in the shops of Wangfujing Street, and indicates how the multilingual linguistic landscape is constructed under the current language policy of China.

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