This time I choose road name as my linguistic landscape. I think the name of the road has a very important meaning. For local citizens, a nice and concise road name can help them get familiar with the traffic conditions in the city more quickly, and remember the location of different roads more easily. Corresponding road names to understand the characteristics of different road sections, familiar with the city you live in. For foreign tourists, road names are the best and easiest way to understand the cultural heritage and characteristics of a city. First of all, it is very simple to know the name of the road, usually it can be seen on the street sign on the side of the road. If you want to understand a city by other means, for example, the historical story of a city, it is more complicated. The name of the road is the simplest clearest, and fastest. In addition, the name of the road is usually related to an important event or a well-known person in the city. By observing the name of the road, foreign tourists can easily understand the personality and historical origin of the city, as well as the the stories the city experienced, for example, cities with complicated road conditions and fast-paced life like New York directly named roads with numbers, which seems to be very rare in the world.
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