English in the Linguistic Landscape of the Russian-Chinese Cross Border Agglomeration  

作　　者：Anastasia Viktorovna Arkharova 

机构地区：[1]Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University,Blagoveshchensk,Russian Federation

出　　处：《US-China Education Review(A)》2024年第8期532-535,共4页美中教育评论（A）

摘　　要：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.

关 键 词：AGGLOMERATION culture international tourism LANGUAGE linguistic landscape MULTILINGUALISM 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]