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schoolscape

schoolscape noun: the linguistic setting of a school or education institution, especially the visual language in terms of signage.

Noun

schoolscape (plural schoolscapes)

  1. The linguistic setting of a school or education institution, especially the visual language in terms of signage.
    • Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc., in the grounds of schools, called ‘schoolscapes’, in shopping centres, and other localised areas.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 2

Forms of schoolscape

pluralschoolscapes

Origin of schoolscape

From school + -scape.

Questions about schoolscape

What does schoolscape mean?
Schoolscape means the linguistic setting of a school or education institution, especially the visual language in terms of signage.
What part of speech is schoolscape?
Schoolscape is a noun.
What is the plural of schoolscape?
The plural of schoolscape is schoolscapes.

Words near schoolscape in the dictionary

  1. schools
  2. schools of hard knocks
  3. schools of the air
  4. schools of thought
  5. schools of thoughts
  6. schoolscape
  7. schoolscapes
  8. schoolsful
  9. schoolship
  10. schoolships
  11. schoolsick

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