What is it about?
Bilingual road signs are a common feature of the Middle East landscape. However, the Romanized place names are fraught with inconsistencies. A linguistic analysis is used to identify patterns in these inconsistencies as a way to remedy the issue.
Featured Image
Photo by Katerina Kerdi on Unsplash
Why is it important?
A unique article addressing the issue of bilingual road signage in the Sultanate of Oman.
Perspectives
The article addresses a real world problem in Oman and proposes concrete solutions.
A/Professor Thomas Roche
Southern Cross University
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Road sign romanization in Oman, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, December 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/aral.40.1.04jam.
You can read the full text:
Resources
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
