Global multilingualism, local bilingualism, official monolingualism: the linguistic landscape of Montreal's St. Catherine Street

被引:14
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作者
Leimgruber, Jakob R. E. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Freiburg, Dept English, Freiburg, Germany
关键词
Linguistic landscape; Montreal; Quebec; language policy; indexicality; ENGLISH; LANGUAGE; IDENTITIES; DIVERSITY; SPACE;
D O I
10.1080/13670050.2017.1401974
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
This paper documents the linguistic landscape of Saint Catherine Street, a major thoroughfare in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The street is taken as a microcosm of the sociolinguistic variation observable at the various levels of analysis, ranging from the neighbourhood, the city, the province, Canada as a whole, and the globally similar environment of the downtown shopping street. By way of a systematic sampling of signs in the street's linguistic landscape, the interactions between federal policies of bilingualism, provincial laws strengthening the visibility of French, and local linguistic realities is considered, as is the impact of the global connectedness of both the 'grassroots' and the commercial world on the linguistic landscape in this street. While the presence of French and English is largely instrumental in function, many instances of other languages are found to be motivated by more symbolic functions, driven, in no small part, by the globally encoded indexical meanings of the languages in question.
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页码:708 / 723
页数:16
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