A Linguistic Landscape of Tourist Spaces: Multilingual Signs in Surabaya and Mojokerto's Heritage Sites

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Hamdiyah, Maulidia Zahrotul (2019) A Linguistic Landscape of Tourist Spaces: Multilingual Signs in Surabaya and Mojokerto's Heritage Sites. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis examines a linguistic landscape and multilingualism of Surabaya and Mojokerto’s heritage sites. This research aims to find out if the different areas of tourist spaces can affect the use of linguistic landscape. It examined the language used in the sign, the function displayed by the sign, and the purpose of displaying particular language on the sign. The theoretical framework used in this study is Landry and Bourhis’s theory which provides the definition of linguistic landscape and anything that is categorized as linguistic landscape. Besides, Spolsky and Coopers’ theory is also employed to analyze the language used in the sign and the function of the sign. As the methodology, the researcher used qualitative and quantitative method in this research. The applied method has helped the researcher reach the objectives of the study by gaining 689 pictures of signs which consist of monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual signs. The researcher also found nine languages used in four heritage sites: Indonesian, English, Javanese, Arabic, Dutch, Latin, Sansekerta, Chinese, and Maduranese. Six categories are provided according to the function of the sign: directional signs, instructional signs, warning notices and prohibitions, building names, informative signs, and advertising sign. The purpose of using particular language in the sign are: facilitate local visitor, facilitate the foreign tourist, presenting the fact, improving visitors’ knowledge, and showing the identity. Thus, the research report indicate that the different areas of the tourist spaces did not affect the use of linguistic landscape.