ABSTRACT
In the past decade, Linguistic Landscape Studies (LLS) have been conducted to produce accurate and detailed inventories of urban multilingualism proposed by Bloommaert & Maly in 2014. The aim of this study was to find the social identity construction of the Batu District society through linguistic landscapes. This district was chosen as it is the central governmental and economic area of the tourist city of Batu. A total of 200 linguistic landscapes were collected in eight different areas of the district. The collected data were then analysed using theories proposed by Landry & Bourhis in 1997. The results show that eight languages are shown in the linguistic landscapes, namely Indonesian, Javanese, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, and French, of which Indonesian is the most commonly used language, followed by English and Javanese. Furthermore, the Indonesian language still has the highest position compared to the other languages.
