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This paper investigates the Linguistic Landscape of Chinese restaurants in Hurstville, a Chinese-concentrated suburb in Sydney, Australia. It draws on Blommaert and Maly’s (2016) Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis (ELLA) and Scollon and Scollon’s geosemiotics (2003). Our data set consists of photographs, Google Street View archives, and ethnographic fieldwork, in particular in-depth interviews with restaurant owners. This paper adopts a diachronic perspective to compare the restaurant scape between 2009 and 2019 and presents an ELLA case study of a long-standing Chinese restaurant. It aims to unveil the temporal and spatial relationships between signs, agents, and place, that demonstrate how a social and historical perspective in Linguistic Landscape studies of diasporic communities can shed light on the changes in the broader social context.

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Change and continuity in Hurstville’s Chinese restaurants
Linguistic Landscape 7, 175 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.20007.xu
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Keyword(s): change; Chinese diaspora; Chinese restaurants; continuity; ethnographic linguistic landscape analysis; geosemiotics; historical; social context; Sydney

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