The Linguistic Landscape of Peshawar: Social Hierarchies of English and its Transliterations

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“…English is apparent more than Indonesian and other foreign languages in the public signs since, as a global language, English is at present a world lingua franca. This is just similar to LL studies conducted outside of Indonesia showing that English is the most dominant language, and more prestigious in status compared to others, see, for example, Bylieva and Lobatyuk (2021), Lawrence (2012), andProfile (2022) . Nowadays, English is used as a means of communication by people in various places in the world (Mohamadsaid & Rasheed, 2019).…”

Section: Positions Of Indonesian English and Arabic In The Ll Researc...supporting

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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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Section: Positions Of Indonesian English and Arabic In The Ll Researc...supporting

confidence: 83%

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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“…For instance, in China, France, and Italy, sections of these societies have for various reasons expressed reservations, concerns, and even opposition to the rapid spread of English and its encroachment upon local languages and their linguistic ecologies (the fact that written Chinese does not use a phonetic system is also a reason why English has not made significant inroads into Chinese in comparison). Please see Gu and Almanna (2023), Hussain et al (2022),…”

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“…Please see Gu and Almanna (2023), Hussain et al. (2022), and Manan et al. (2017) for more discussions or reflections on the possible reasons behind such interesting language use.…”

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Transliterated multilingualism/globalisation: English disguised in non‐Latin linguistic landscapes as new type of world Englishes?

Gu,

Manan

2024

Int J App Linguistics

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English has, for historical reasons, risen to global prominence as the unchallenged lingua franca internationally. World Englishes (WE) has, as a result, established itself as a visible line of research, exploring localised/indigenised varieties of English from around the world (e.g. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Nigeria). However, most of the discussions so far concern English written in the Latin script as people would normally expect. Against a backdrop of globalisation and the juggernaut of English, this article points to an increasingly salient phenomenon that English especially in superdiverse and/or (post)colonial societies (e.g. India and Pakistan) may disguise in seemingly inscrutable and ‘mysterious’ local scripts (e.g. Perso‐Arabic script and Devanagari script) and even ‘pass off’ as local languages in these countries’ linguistic landscapes through phonetic transliteration. This emerging trend begs the question whether these should be understood as new varieties of local languages or new kinds of world Englishes disguised in non‐Roman scripts. This phenomenon is theorised in this paper conceptually. To illustrate our point, examples of authentic signs taken from the linguistic landscapes relating to South Asia and South Asian communities are discussed. As English is increasingly glocalised and becomes part of other less dominant languages, this article calls on researchers in World Englishes (WE) and (socio)linguistics in general to look beyond English written in the Latin script in a conventional/traditional sense and to expand the scope and remit of WE research to explore how English, as a dominant code, becomes indigenised using local scripts and morphs into and even ‘passes off’ as ‘local’ surreptitiously. This fundamentally calls for the crucial need for researchers from diverse and multilingual backgrounds to work together to better understand English and other non‐dominant languages’ role in the 21st century.

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Linguistic landscape of Mojosari: Language policy, language vitality and commodification of language

Rohmah,

Widya Nur Wijayanti

2023

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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The Linguistic Landscape of Peshawar: Social Hierarchies of English and its Transliterations

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 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

Transliterated multilingualism/globalisation: English disguised in non‐Latin linguistic landscapes as new type of world Englishes?

Linguistic landscape of Mojosari: Language policy, language vitality and commodification of language

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