Linguistic Landcape

What is it about?

This publication examines which languages were represented in the inscriptions of different series of banknotes issued between the First and Second World Wars (1919–1938) in the Czechoslovak Republic. Along with portraits of historical figures, images relating to the culture and history of a particular nation, the presence (or absence) of banknotes of languages is also an element of symbolic politics and part of the manifestation of the language policy of a particular state. Banknotes are seen as an element of the linguistic landscape, and the linguistic landscape - as a reflection of language policy, its peculiar public expression.

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