Abstract:
The use of Bahasa Indonesia in the public space is the attitude of the community
to the Indonesian language as national language. The existence of foreign
language use in public spaces is one of the evidences that the society understands
foreign language compared to Bahasa Indonesia in its own country. The use of
Bahasa Indonesia in the public area of Kualanamu International Airport is highly
influenced by many things including the attitude of stakeholders. This research
aims to describe the use of linguistic landscape in Kualanamu International
Airport, with indoor and outdoor areas. The methods used in this research were
qualitative and quantitative methods. The quantitative method was used for
calculating the dominant language displayed. The Data of visual pictures was
collected in a way that was photographed and obtained by 131 pictures,
instructions, restrictions, and local shops. This Data was analyzed by using the
features expressed by Cenoz-Gorter i.e. the first language displayed, size of text,
font type, translation and types of marks. The results of this study showed that
monolingual signs amounted to 56 (42.74%), bilingual sign 49 (37.41%) and
multilingual sign 26 (19.85%).
