Abstract:
This research deals with register variation on linguistic landscape at government
offices around Medan. It is aimed to investigate the type of register functionbased and the realization of register on linguistic landscape. The research is
applied descriptive qualitative. The data of this research is the text Displayed on
banners and pamphlet (linguistic landscape) at rounding Government Offices that
were taken through photography. There are 50 data that were analyzed based on
Miles and Huberman, including data reduction data display, and conclusion. The
research finding showed that there were five types of register realized on
linguistic landscape namely: Frozen Register, Formal register, and Consultative
register. It also found that register was realized in linguistic landscape through
monolingual sign (Indonesia) and Bilingual Sign (Bahasa-English).
