Lombok Linguistic Landscape: 9,728 Signage Images from Five Districts

Baharuddin Baharuddin's dataset contains visual research extenders supporting an article submitted to Social Semiotics. The materials summarize findings from a multimodal linguistic landscape study based on 9,728 signage images collected across five districts of Lombok, Indonesia. The infographic visualizes three overlapping regimes of visibility—pandemic governance, tourism spectacle, and everyday commercial promotion—and explains their competition.

Use Cases

• Analyze visual pollution and aesthetic degradation in urban environments based on the described competition of visibility regimes.
• Study multimodal signage and tourism branding based on the collection of 9,728 images from Lombok.
• Teach concepts of linguistic landscape and regimes of visibility using the provided infographic and summary materials.
• Inform policy discussions on urban legibility and commercial promotion in tourism-driven areas.

Strengths

• Based on a substantial collection of 9,728 signage images.
• Explicitly designed for public dissemination, teaching, and policy discussion.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small at 15.5 MB, which may limit the scope of quantitative analysis.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific study in Lombok.

Provenance

Source

Baharuddin Baharuddin via figshare.

Collection Method

Multimodal linguistic landscape study involving image collection.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 22:43:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Five districts of Lombok, Indonesia.