Dissecting multilingual Beijing: The space and scale of vernacular globalization

Visual Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-90

  Pan, Lin ^a,b  

^a BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beijing; Multilingual signs; Scale; Space; Vernacular globalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950634545     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: 17413214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357209352948     Document Type: Article

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