Linguistic landscape research and it`s analyses in Russia and China

Liu Jingpeng

Linguistic landscape is a new area of research in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. The research of linguistic landscape had begun in the 70-80s of the XX century, it laid the foundations for the process of studying bilingual or multilingual phenomena. Currently, the development of Russian-Chinese relations has reached its peak, humanitarian cooperation and cultural exchange between Russia and China are being strengthened. In this process, the role of the linguistic landscape in the combination of Russian and Chinese is very primising. The article discusses some aspects of the study of linguistic landscape in Russia and China, and analyzes errors in the translation from Chinese into Russian and from Russian into Chinese.

Keywords:linguistic landscape, sign-boards, Russian language, Chinese language, translation error.