Shan Wang

Language landscape is an important part of urban environment, and city image is a full display of regional culture. Previous studies have mainly focused on multilingualism, language policy, English globalization, and minority languages, but there are relatively few studies that combine language landscape with cultural heritage in the construction of urban image. In view of this, the present study takes Quyang County, the "hometown of sculpture", as an example, and uses nexus analysis to explain the expression of historical subjects, place discourse, and interactive order in the inheritance of sculpture culture. The study found that the Quyang County government, as the subject of behavior, shaped the city image of "modern Chinese sculpture cultural city" through language landscape, stimulated the sculpture industry, and deepened the sculpture culture; the place discourse reflected the recognition of sculpture culture by landscape planners and local people; the interactive order in the landscape reflected the interactive relationship between different subjects in the sculpture language landscape. The research results have certain positive significance for the inheritance of characteristic culture in the construction of urban image.

linguistic landscape; regional culture; city image; nexus analysis

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