A linguistic landscape study in tourism places of Surabaya city

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Laela, Nur (2021) A linguistic landscape study in tourism places of Surabaya city. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aims to analyze the linguistic landscape in tourism places of Surabaya city. The tourism places chosen by the researcher are the oldest and most famous tourism places in Surabaya city, namely the Sunan Ampel mosque, Ken park, and Surabaya Zoo. To analyze this research, the researcher used findings based on Landry and Bourhis (1997), Gorter (2007), and Spolsky (1991). There are three formulations of the problem in this study, the first is the types of landscape linguistics that exist in the three tourism places, the second is the diversity of languages used in linguistic landscape, and the last is the function of linguistic landscape. This study uses a qualitative and quantitative method. Qualitative methods are used by researcher to explain and interpret various signs, and percentage of data that has been obtained from observations. To collect data, the researcher conducted a field survey, after that conducted observations and survey. Survey were conducted in each tourism places with a total of 30 sources. The languages and also the results of survey. Quantitative methods are used to calculate the amount analysis was continued by identifying the type of linguistic landscape, which then analyzes the language used in linguistic landscape and grouping it, and finally, transcribing the results of the survey so that conclusions can be drawn from the function of linguistic landscape in tourism places. The results of the study show that there is a 547 linguistic landscape from three tourism places. The data include top-down 372 with a percentage of 68% and bottom-up 175 with a percentage of 32%. Furthermore, to answer the second formulation of the problem, the researcher found several types of language used in the linguistic landscape such as monolingual, bilingual, trilingual, and multilingual. The researcher also found that there are 10 languages used such as Indonesian, English, Arabic, Javanese, Madurese, Dutch, French, German, Chinese and Japanese. And finally, from the results of the study, 28 people answered that linguistic landscape has a function as information in the tourism places, while 2 people answered that linguistic landscape has a function as a character in the tourism places. The researcher found uniqueness in the writing of various languages, such as Indonesian written in Arabic letters and Javanese written in Javanese script.