CLLiENT (CULTURE, LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS, ENGLISH TEACHING)
Vol 2 No 2 (2020): CLLiENT JOURNAL

A LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE IN HEALTH CONTEXT: A STUDY CASE IN TWO CAMPUSES IN A TOWN

Fiki Fauzi (Unknown)
Khristianto Khristianto (Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Nov 2020

Abstract

This article focuses on a linguistic landscape that appear in Faculty of Health Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto and Health Polytechnic Semarang. The aims of this study is to compare the linguistic landscape in two faculty of health which were in Universitas Muhammadiyah and Health Polytechnic Semarang. The writers use the theory from Spolsky and Cooper to analyze the linguistic landscape according to the language used in the sign and according to the function of the signs. The writers also used observation instrument. Thus, the writers visited both places and take a pictures ome signs that appeared. There are two dominant languages found among those selected sites. Those language are English language and Indonesian language. Six types are provided to categorize the linguistic landscape: direction signs, advertising signs, warning notices and prohibitions, building names, informative signs, and instructions. Furthermore, the functions of linguistic landscape for students are as motivation, the form of hopes from campus to students, for the media for communication, information, and creating a culture. Keywords: public sign, health department, language, landscape.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

cllient

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

A Journal of Culture, Literature, Linguistics, and English Teaching presents articles on culture, literature, Linguistics, and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and its teaching. Contents include Analysis, Studies, Applications of Theories, Research Reports, EFL Teaching and Learning, Language in ...