Abstract—Research shows that aboriginal people, the
Wangal people, had been lived in the suburb of Burwood for
11,000 years since the British colony arrived in 1788. After the
British came, this suburb started to develop as many other
European cities did. Houses, roads and other different
infrastructural facilities were built and population were getting
larger and larger. English is the dominant language in
Burwood and this essay is going to present a linguistic
landscapes study which aims at exploring how the languages
on the signs reflect or interact with the local people and
communities.
Index Terms—Linguistic landscapes, language, Burwood,
multicultural, multiethnic.
The author is with the Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University,
China (e-mail: karen1214@live.cn).
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Cite:Jiawen Wu, "Languages on the Signs in Burwood, Sydney," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 54-58, 2021.