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8 December 2014
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Linguistic Landscape The Grote Markt Sebastiaan Ham, Sophie De Geyter, An De Schutter
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3 Research method & preliminary findings Linguistic landscape results Conclusions Content
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The Grote Markt Preliminary findings Organisation of the dataset Photo categories Expectations 4 Dutch French English German Spanish Latin
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The Linguistic Landscape: results The Grote Markt 5
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6 The remains of the past Latin City hall (16 th century) Prestigious & Catholic
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7 The remains of the past Multilingual Tourist-orientated Symbols: global Not commercial
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The remains of the past 8 Old Dutch On the old guild houses (13th century) Stone carvings
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9 Nowadays English Tourists & locals Mistakes on purpose?
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10 Nowadays… Symbols No language / English Global Younger public Politics
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Nowadays… Multilingual Instructions Not commercial local & tourist-orientated 11
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12 The hereafter/ prospects More foreign & exotic languages
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13 Prospects English boom & symbols Short but powerful slogans, phrases, …
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Conclusion Expectations? History of the place Nowadays: tourism (mainly restaurants) Snob-appeal: the rise of English Future: more exotic languages? Symbols replacing text? 14
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Q&A The Grote Markt 15
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