linguistic landscape

Noun

linguistic landscape (plural linguistic landscapes)

1. The totality of written language visible within a certain area.
   • And although the Hong Kong linguistic landscape has Romanized Chinese, for example in business names, bilingual Chinese students had expressed to me on many occasions that they generally ignore English text, whether transliteration or translation.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...
2. The totality of languages that occur in a certain region.
   • The most outstanding feature of the linguistic landscape of India is the fact that, as enlisted in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, there are the following 15 well developed major languages in the country.1984, Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India, volume 25, New Delhi, page 5
3. The vocabulary that makes up a language.
   • No intelligent man or woman would use the word `bloke.' It is a gutter expression, destitute of the least claim to recognition, a blur on the linguistic landscape, and a standing advertisement of Australian bad language.1910 February 23, The Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, NSW, page 6, column 1
   • Particles have always been a problematic and usually neglected area within the linguistic landscape.1996, Betty Devriendt, Louis Goossens, Johan van der Auwera, editors, Complex Structures: A Functionalist Perspective, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, page 259