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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Shaping Tourist LL: Language Display and the Sociolinguistic Background of an International Multilingual Readership
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Bruyèl-Olmedo, Antonio; Juan-Garau, Maria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
Linguistic landscape studies increasingly focus on the variables that intertwine to generate the meaning of texts on display. International tourist resorts, largely multilingual, reveal how languages in signage combine and respond to the sociolinguistic profile of their readership. However, these settings have received scant attention in the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Profiles
English as a "Lingua Franca" in the Linguistic Landscape of the Multilingual Resort of S'Arenal in Mallorca
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Bruyel-Olmedo, Antonio; Juan-Garau, Maria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
English has become the "lingua franca" of international exchanges. This is reflected in sociolinguistic studies of linguistic landscape (LL) which tackle the coexistence of English with local languages (e.g. Backhaus, 2007; Cenoz & Gorter, 2006; Edelman, 2006), on occasion oppressed (e.g. Nino-Murcia, 2003). However, there is little research on…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)