ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to show how the study of Linguistic Landscape can be useful for a better understanding of multilingualism in urban settings and to grasp aspects of contact between languages, cultures, identities and society. Cities are the ideal place where to observe the effects of language contact, which manifests itself in the Linguistic Landscape in all its forms, both from the point of view of formal properties of languages (with examples of borrowings, code-switching and language transfers) and from a functional perspective, which interprets languages as social activities.
