Investigation into the Linguistic Landscape of Chinese Language within and around A University in Thailand

Abstract

Studying overseas Chinese language via the theory of “linguistic language” not only
creates a new perspective for the corresponding researches, but also broadens the scope of them.
Without doubt each “Chinatown” throughout the globe is deemed as a top location in linguistic
language study of overseas Chinese language. Nevertheless, sufficient attention is supposed to
be attached to other types of areas where overseas Chinese aggregate. In this research, the
linguistic language of Chinese language has been looked into both within and around A
University in Thailand. Through such research perspectives as code and function analysis,
comparison with surveys of “Chinatown”, it is proposed that sub-inquiries into separated
regions should be adopted before reaching an integrated conclusion when probing into the
overall situation of Chinese language in Thailand based on the theory of linguistic language.