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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">32091</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-31228</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A semiotic portrait of a big Chinese city</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Семиотический портрет большого китайского города</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0972-4609</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Leontovich</surname><given-names>Olga Arkad'evna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Леонтович</surname><given-names>Ольга Аркадьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Doctor Habil, Professor of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Translation</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры межкультурной коммуникации и перевода</p></bio><email>olgaleo@list.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9900-1983</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kotelnikova</surname><given-names>Nadezhda Nikolaevna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Котельникова</surname><given-names>Надежда Николаевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Pedagogics, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Translation, Director of Confucius Institute</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат педагогических наук, заведующая кафедрой межкультурной коммуникации и перевода, директор Института Конфуция</p></bio><email>kotelnikova_n_n@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Волгоградский государственный социально-педагогический университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-09-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 26, NO3 (2022)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 26, №3 (2022)</issue-title><fpage>701</fpage><lpage>720</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-10-01"><day>01</day><month>10</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Leontovich O.A., Kotelnikova N.N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Леонтович О.А., Котельникова Н.Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2022, Leontovich O., Kotelnikova N.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Leontovich O.A., Kotelnikova N.N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Леонтович О.А., Котельникова Н.Н.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Leontovich O., Kotelnikova N.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/32091">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/32091</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">Urban communication studies is a growing field of research aiming to reveal the regularities of human interaction in an urban context. The goal of the present study is to examine the semiotics of a big Chinese city as a complex communicative system and its effect on the social development of urban community. The material includes over 700 units (toponyms, street signs, advertisements, memorials, local foods and souvenirs, mass media, etc.) mostly collected in Tianjin, China’s fourth biggest city with a population of almost 14 million people. The research methodology is based on critical discourse analysis, ethnographic and semiotic methods, and narrative analysis. The study reveals the structure of communication in a big Chinese city and the integration of language into the city landscape. It indicates that urban historical memories are manifested in the form of memorials, symbols, historic and contemporary narratives. The physical context is associated with names of streets and other topological objects. Verbal and visual semiotic signs are used to ensure people’s psychological and physical safety. Social advertising predominantly deals with the propaganda of Chinese governmental policy, traditional values and ‘civilized behaviour’. Chinese urban subcultures, such as ‘ant tribe, ‘pendulums’, ‘shamate’, etc., reflect new social realities. Food and foodways are defined by cultural values and different aspects of social identity. The image of a big Chinese city is also affected by globalization tendencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. The research framework presented in the study provides an opportunity to show a wide panorama of modern urban life. It can be extrapolated to the investigation of other big cities and their linguistic landscapes.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Медиаурбанистика - стремительно развивающаяся сфера исследований, направленная на выявление закономерностей коммуникации в урбанистическом контексте. Цель настоящего исследования - анализ семиотики большого китайского города как сложной коммуникативной системы и ее воздействия на динамику городского социума. Практический материал включает более 700 единиц (топонимы, рекламные объявления, плакаты, афиши, мемориалы, сообщения в местных СМИ, названия и оформление местной еды, сувениры, популярные коммуникативные практики и т. д.), собранных в Тяньцзине, одном из крупнейших китайских городов с населением около 14 млн человек. В качестве ключевых методов исследования выступают критический дискурс-анализ, этнографический и семиотический методы, а также нарративный анализ. В процессе исследования раскрыты структура коммуникации в большом китайском городе и закономерности интеграции языка в городской контекст. Выявлено, что историческая память представлена в виде мемориалов, символов, исторических и современных нарративов. Физический контекст ассоциируется с наименованиями улиц и других топологических объектов. Языковые и визуальные семиотические знаки применяются для обеспечения психологической и физической безопасности. Социальная реклама преимущественно используется для пропаганды китайской официальной политики, традиционных ценностей и цивилизованного поведения. Городские субкультуры, такие как «муравьиное племя», «люди-маятники», «шаматэ» и др., отражают новую социальную реальность. Гастрономический дискурс ассоциируется с культурными ценностями и различными аспектами социальной идентичности. На облик большого китайского города также влияют глобализационные тенденции и пандемия коронавируса. Разработанная концепция позволяет представить широкую панораму современной городской жизни и может быть экстраполирована на исследование языкового ландшафта других крупных городов.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>urban communication studies</kwd><kwd>linguistic landscape</kwd><kwd>semiotics</kwd><kwd>discourse</kwd><kwd>Chinese language</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>медиаурбанистические исследования</kwd><kwd>лингвистический ландшафт</kwd><kwd>семиотика</kwd><kwd>дискурс</kwd><kwd>китайский язык</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Aiello, Giorgia &amp; Simone Tosoni. 2016. Urban communication. Going about the city: Methods and methodologies for urban communication research - Introduction. International Journal of Communication 10. 1252-1262</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Bakumova, Elena &amp; Nadezhda Kotelnikova. 2019. 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