The landscape of public road signs advertising billboards

言語景観 The landscape of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings combines to form the linguistic landscape of a given territory, region, or urban agglomeration. Landry and Bourhis (1997) 3

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