Semiotic Landscapes: Scaling Indonesian Multilingualism

Goebel, Zane

doi:10.22146/jh.57647

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“…Moreover, the issues of inequality and economic mobility were brought by Goebel (2020) when researching signs in the main streets in Bandung and some of the nearby neighborhoods. In his attempt to portray the signs of Chineseness, he found little signage containing Chinese characters out of the six hundred or so pictures taken in the central district of Bandung.…”

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Muslim majority yet without preference for Arabic: Mapping linguistic landscape studies in Indonesia

Rohmah,

Basthomi,

Sholihah

2024

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Linguistic Landscape (LL) research has explored signage in various public places in the world, including Indonesia. However, since there has been no comprehensive review of LL studies in Indonesia, the current article seeks to identify trends in LL research in Indonesia. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) method was applied to analyze thirty-one LL articles coming out from the open knowledge maps application. The findings suggest that there is a steady increase in the number of LL studies in Indonesia apparent starting from the year of 2017 based on the obtained data from eleven provinces. More bottom-up signs were found mostly using quantitative approaches. The findings also reveal that the Indonesian language dominates signs in the LL studies followed by English. Interestingly, although Indonesia has the biggest number of Muslim citizens in the world, Arabic is used more often than English only in two locations of LL studies, namely the tomb of Sunan Ampel and the City of Mataram. Issues often discussed in the LL studies are multilingualism, micro-analysis of linguistics, and broader issues, namely powerandsolidarity, identity, and ideology. Future researchers may focus more on qualitative analysis of LL studies, and relates LL studies with promising topics on geo-linguistics, management of halal food, ecology and culture, inequality and economic mobility, health issues, minority language, media in ELT, and online/virtual LL as well as language contestation related to the abovementioned issues.

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Muslim majority yet without preference for Arabic: Mapping linguistic landscape studies in Indonesia

Rohmah,

Basthomi,

Sholihah

2024

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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“…Arabic also exists to represent the Islamic identity of the schools. A different perspective, the semiotic landscape, is adopted by Goebel (2020) in revealing Bandung's cityscape. It was found that signage presents multilingualism, inequality, human mobility, and social, political, and economic effects on the city's multilingualism.…”

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“…The contestation happens in the public space due to the imbalance position of languages in the social life of a speech community in which there must be a dominant and marginal language as the result of language policy, commercial consideration, and the close relationship of a certain language to a speech community (Lotherington, 2013). Further development of LL theory arises, and it is defined as an interdisciplinary branch of the sociolinguistics of globalization which concerns the languages on outdoor signs in public areas and its correlation with semiotics, sociology, politics, geography, and economy (Barni & Bagna, 2015;Goebel, 2020). Ben-Rafael et al (2006) differentiate outdoor signs into two major groups: top-down and bottom-up.…”

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Geosemiotic analysis of commercial outdoor signs in north Bali urban area, Indonesia

2023

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The article reveals the place semiotic elements as a part of geosemiotic analysis of the commercial outdoor signs in Singaraja city and Lovina tourist area in north Bali. It covers the signs' code preference, inscription, and emplacement. The researchers collected 604 pictures of commercial public signs from both places. Observation and interviews were also conducted to obtain the data for a comprehensive place semiotic analysis. In terms of code preference, this study found that Indonesian is dominant in local people-oriented signs, and English is more dominant in tourist-oriented signs. It implies that the commercial ideology of the signs put aside the language policy factors. Surprisingly, Balinese, as the local language, is not found on the signs, but Arabic emblemed with Islam religion, exists on the signs as the combination of business and religious identity. The inscription analysis shows that Roman script is the most dominant orthographic system, followed by Balinese and Arabic. In this case, the touch of local language policy supports the existence of Balinese script on the signs for transliteration only. Then, the emplacement analysis reveals that situated semiotics is the most frequent element due to the business location indexation. Decontextualization and transgressive elements were less frequently found since decontextualized signs are related to well-established brands, and transgressive signs are related to typical improperly placed commercial signs. The commercial signs do not align with the national and local language policy but emphasize profit orientation.

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“…LL yang sering juga disebut dengan semiotik lanskap adalah salah satu bingkai cara pandang fenomena linguistik di suatu daerah yang merupakan bagian dari sosiolinguistik globalisasi, linguistik antropologi, dan linguistik etnografi (Goebel, 2020). Hal tersebut menyebabkan kajian LL bersifat interdisipliner yang melibatkan aspek semiotik, sosiologi, politik, geografi, dan ekonomi (Barni & Bagna, 2015).…”

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KONTESTASI BAHASA PADA TANDA LUAR RUANG DI DAERAH PARIWISATA (Language Contestation on the Public Signs in A Touristic Area)

Paramarta

2022

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Language contestation on outdoor signs always occurs in certain territories because different languages cannot be socially equal. Candidasa, a tourist area located in the eastern part of Bali, also experiences language contestation in its outdoor signs. A descriptive qualitative study was conducted to describe and analyze the dominant and marginal language at the place. Then the language contestation was also analyzed using Bakhtin's theory of centripetal and centrifugal forces. The subjects of this study were all outdoor signs placed along the main road of Candidasa. The research instruments were the researcher as the key instrument and observation sheets. A digital camera was also used to support the data collection. The data collection process with a digital camera resulted in 622 photos. Data analysis was performed by classifying the data into top-down and bottom-up monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual types. Indonesian is dominant in the monolingual top-down classi ication, while English is dominant in the monolingual bottom-up. In the top-down and bottom-up bilingual signs, the combination of Indonesian and English occupies a dominant position. Then, in the top-down and bottom-up multilingual outdoor signs, the combination of English and Indonesian languages also dominates. Balinese as the local language occupies a marginal position to the presence of Indonesian and English. The contestation from centripetal and centrifugal forces shows four contestation patterns: pure centripetal pattern, combined pattern, pure centrifugal pattern, and centripetal centrifugal forces assimilation pattern. Both language forces are supported by national and regional language policy and the commercial interests of the sign makers.

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Semiotic Landscapes: Scaling Indonesian Multilingualism

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Muslim majority yet without preference for Arabic: Mapping linguistic landscape studies in Indonesia

Muslim majority yet without preference for Arabic: Mapping linguistic landscape studies in Indonesia

Geosemiotic analysis of commercial outdoor signs in north Bali urban area, Indonesia

KONTESTASI BAHASA PADA TANDA LUAR RUANG DI DAERAH PARIWISATA (Language Contestation on the Public Signs in A Touristic Area)

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