Linguistic Landscape in Cultural Heritage Sites in Cimahi City

Several things, including local, national, and global cultural influences, shape the language choices of today's society. In addition, social, political, economic, religious, and historical factors are also important. This study investigates the use and selection of language displayed in cultural heritage sites in Cimahi City. Several buildings have been formalized as cultural heritage buildings in Cimahi City. These buildings include Dustira Hospital, Cimahi Station, Sudirman Building, and Poncol Military Detention Center. The qualitative method in this linguistic landscape research was pursued by conducting photographic documentation and visual analysis in public spaces. The data were collected through linguistic signs in public spaces, especially the writings spread on cultural heritage sites in Cimahi City. As a cultural heritage site, the historical dimension marks almost all of the linguistic landscape data. The findings based on this semiotic landscape approach show that the Dutch face marks the linguistic landscape of cultural heritage sites in Cimahi City. Indonesia, as a nation that was once colonized by the Dutch is shown by the linguistic landscape markers here. This means that Dutch becomes an important language, even the national language, Indonesian must be willing to be a second language after Dutch. The language choices used in the linguistic landscape of cultural heritage sites in Cimahi City are Indonesian, Sundanese, English, and Dutch, both monolingually and bilingually.