The linguistic landscape

This is a research project on the visual representation of North East dialect in the public domain. So far, most research on the language of the road signs, advertising hoardings, street names, shop signs and other written messages which make up the linguistic landscape of a given area has focused on issues surrounding multilingualism. In contrast, this project focused on the use of vernacular North East English grammar, lexis and orthography in public settings.

All the 'crowd-sourced' images collected during my research are archived on the project website. My findings are reported in this chapter: