Language Choice as an Index of Identity: Linguistic Landscape in Dili, Timor-Leste

Autor/in	Taylor-Leech, Kerry Jane
Titel	Language Choice as an Index of Identity: Linguistic Landscape in Dili, Timor-Leste
Quelle	In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 9 (2012) 1, S.15-34 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1479-0718
DOI	10.1080/14790718.2011.583654
Schlagwörter	Language Usage; Language Planning; Nationalism; Foreign Countries; Economic Change; Public Policy; Grammar; Social Change; Political Influences; Malayo Polynesian Languages; Indonesian; Portuguese; Official Languages; Multilingualism; English (Second Language); Language of Instruction; Timor-Leste + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachgebrauch; Sprachwechsel; Nationalismus; Ausland; Ökonomischer Wandel; Öffentliche Ordnung; Grammatik; Sozialer Wandel; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Portugiesischunterricht; Office language; Amtssprache; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache
Abstract	This article aims to show how language choice indexes social and national identity in the linguistic landscape of Dili, the capital city of Timor-Leste. The linguistic landscape is examined in the light of the country's current language situation, its colonial legacies and its ongoing development challenges. In this study, the iconicity, indexicality and visual grammar of official and non-official public signage in a capital city of the global south is discussed and the use of language in a range of signs is further analysed using the notion of language on display. The implications for language policy are also explored, taking account of the wider processes of social, political and economic change at work in this new nation. (Contains 10 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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