Publications

Publication details [#58532]

Muth, Sebastian. 2014. Linguistic landscapes on the other side of the border: signs, language and the construction of cultural identity in Transnistria. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 227 : 25–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language choice | language use | place deixis | sign

Language as a subject

Romanian, Moldovan | Russian | Ukrainian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This linguistic landscape study elucidates institutional and private language use in since 1992 de facto independent Transnistria, as illustrated by signs in the republic's chiefly Russian-speaking capital Tiraspol. Though Transnistria is officially trilingual in Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian (Moldovan) written in Cyrillic script, most residents prefer Russian.