‘Walk straight’: how small-town residents navigate without street signs and names
Residents of rural towns through lack of signage are forced to create their own unique way of giving directions
18 July 2022 - 20:30
Linguistic landscape is the study of languages used in signs. As most of the field’s pioneering studies were based on cities, research comes to be associated with cityscapes...
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