印度聚居区语言的可见性和显著性：一个案例研究

IF 1.2 1区文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

International Multilingual Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI:10.1080/19313152.2023.2182095

Nusrat Begum, S. Sinha

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摘要语言景观是社会语言学的一个新兴领域，它探索公共领域中的语言文本形式。本文调查了语言在印度比哈尔邦首府巴特那公共空间的可见性和突出性。共选择了10个城市社区进行研究。该研究的语料库是通过多样性抽样方法收集的，为该研究汇编的数据语料库包括700个自上而下和自下而上的标志，这些标志是在所选社区最繁忙的主要街道上拍摄的。这些数据已被分类为语言的分布、符号上使用的语言/脚本组合以及LL各领域的语言分布模式。研究结果表明，印地语是国家的第一种官方语言，英语是全球化世界的通用语，也是权力、地位和声望的语言，主导着这座城市的语言景观。然而，比哈尔邦的其他多数语言在公共场所被忽视了。本研究运用语言和象征力量的方法，阐释了印地语的霸权和比哈尔邦地方语言的匮乏。

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The visibility and salience of languages in an Indian agglomeration: A case study

ABSTRACT Linguistic landscaping (LL) is an emerging field of Sociolinguistics exploring the language in its textual form in public sphere. This paper investigates the visibility and prominence of languages in the public space of Patna, the capital city of Bihar, India. A total of 10 city neighborhoods are chosen for the study. The corpus of the study is collected by using diversity sampling method, and the data corpus compiled for the study comprised 700 top-down and bottom-up signs, photographed at the main busiest streets of the chosen neighborhoods. The data have been categorized concerning distributions of languages and language/script combinations used on signs and the pattern of language distributions across the domains of the LL. The findings indicate that Hindi, being the first official language of the state and English, the lingua franca of the globalized world and the language of power, status and prestige dominate the linguistic landscape of the city. However, other majority languages spoken in Bihar are ignored in public spaces. Using the approach of language and symbolic power, the study explicates the hegemony of Hindi language and deprivation of regional languages in the LL of Bihar.

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期刊介绍： The International Multilingual Research Journal (IMRJ) invites scholarly contributions with strong interdisciplinary perspectives to understand and promote bi/multilingualism, bi/multi-literacy, and linguistic democracy. The journal’s focus is on these topics as related to languages other than English as well as dialectal variations of English. It has three thematic emphases: the intersection of language and culture, the dialectics of the local and global, and comparative models within and across contexts. IMRJ is committed to promoting equity, access, and social justice in education, and to offering accessible research and policy analyses to better inform scholars, educators, students, and policy makers. IMRJ is particularly interested in scholarship grounded in interdisciplinary frameworks that offer insights from linguistics, applied linguistics, education, globalization and immigration studies, cultural psychology, linguistic and psychological anthropology, sociolinguistics, literacy studies, post-colonial studies, critical race theory, and critical theory and pedagogy. It seeks theoretical and empirical scholarship with implications for research, policy, and practice. Submissions of research articles based on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods are encouraged. The journal includes book reviews and two occasional sections: Perspectives and Research Notes. Perspectives allows for informed debate and exchanges on current issues and hot topics related to bi/multilingualism, bi/multi-literacy, and linguistic democracy from research, practice, and policy perspectives. Research Notes are shorter submissions that provide updates on major research projects and trends in the field.