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English in the Linguistic Landscape of the Russian-Chinese Cross Border Agglomeration
Anastasia Viktorovna Arkharova
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2024.08.005
Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University, Blagoveshchensk, Russian Federation
The present article examines the role of English in shaping the linguistic landscape of the Russian-Chinese cross border agglomeration. Officials are planning to create the largest transport, logistics, and economic center on the Russian-Chinese border. Blagoveshchensk and Heihe are two neighboring cities which will be the centers of the agglomeration. The territories of both cities will see great changes and become more attractive for international tourism. The raise of the tourist flow is supposed to increase the role of English in the agglomeration. This study attempts to analyze the use of English in public signs of both cities to provide explanations for such language choice and to investigate the prospects for the language use in the linguistic landscape of the agglomeration. As a result, several groups of onyms were identified, all of them being highly exposed to tourists.
agglomeration, culture, international tourism, language, linguistic landscape, multilingualism
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