Have you ever seen a linguistic landscape in your neighborhood or elsewhere? For the past three days we have been talking about and looking at examples of linguistic landscapes, they can inform us about the neighborhood in many ways such as Demographics, relationships, identity and social practices. These landscapes can tell us a lot about your neighborhood or others by
Jessica. Tabares October -23-2018 ELL- 101 Professor Ines Vano Garcia Linguistic Landscape The linguistic landscape that I took a picture of was around the gym that I go to. Its above of a furniture store the English letters are all capitalized and in bold. And then there is another language under it both languages are in white and
Reflective Essay #2: Linguistic Landscape For the past few days, we have been discussing linguistic landscapes and we were given the assignment to go out and take a few pictures of what we thought was to be a linguistic landscape. I went to Jackson Heights (74th Street) and took a picture of near a currency exchange place. Near that currency
The sign I chose was from an anime store in Flushing called “Anime Castle”. I chose this store because I often go to this store to buy anime related goods especially manga. Just like every other store they have their store name “Anime Castle” big and right in the center. The background is hard to notice but they do list
A) This was taken on 103 Street Roosevelt Ave B) Poster was on a supermarket window C) The Language is both English and Spanish D) In Spanish, It says “Buy your tickets here and now!”
a) This picture was taken in Jamaica, Queens on 90th Ave. b) The languages that are being used are Spanish and English. c) I have no idea what the words in Spanish say other than “the national” that is located above next to “pay bills”. However, I am completely guessing.
This is the banner of my local Chinese food store at Farmers Boulevard in Saint Albans Queens. The the sign is mostly in English, the name of the store is Chinese (though the words uses the Latin alphabet rather than Chinese characters). The sign is simple with it’s purpose, letting anyone who passes by know the name of their restaurant
This picture was taken on Roosevelt Ave. The languages here presented are English The sign shows signals, the name of a trade school and its address, it shows the rules for parking, graffiti, traffic signals, and also it shows banners to show propaganda of some sort of website.
a) Where was this picture taken? Main Street Flushing b) What languages area used? English, Chinese, and Japanese. c) What does the sign say? English says anime castle. Chinese on the left says anime and on the right says manga. And the Japanese in the middle says anime.