Abstract
This work investigates the bilingual linguistic landscape as represented in St Fagans, the national history museum in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Being a history museum it covers knowledge of Welsh history and culture where objects of historical, artistic, and cultural importance are kept for public exhibition. The linguistic landscape (LL) in St Fagans offers the viewers a look into the cultural diversity, the preservation and co-existence of two languages, English and Welsh, over time. Besides focussing on the symbolic functions through linguistic code preference, the study also aims at exploring how the LL contributes to the discursive construction of the museum identity and the collective identity of the people whose history it seeks to represent inhabit it. Moreover, the study sheds light on the relationships between linguistic landscape and the sociolinguistic context of Wales. The study recommends an investigation into the bi/multilingual landscape of Pakistan to help reveal the diverse ethnolingusitic make-up of the country.

Amjad Saleem. (2018) Linguistic Landscape: A Study of Signage at Public Museum in Cardiff, Putaj Humanities And Social Science, Volume-25, Issue-1.
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