• Kristine Marie B. Narcida

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• Rowena V. Sosas

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Environmental signs are put into public for safety and orientation. It uses language to denote types of warnings, prohibitions, and information. However, features of language used are not that common to the reading public. This qualitative study focuses on investigating the linguistic features of environmental signs in Kidapawan City, Philippines, the city of fruits and highland springs. It uses 100 environmental signs in Kidapawan City as the data. Results revealed that environmental signs use linguistic features such as prohibitions, imperatives, nouns, jargons, negative fronting, and politeness markers. Specifically, environmental signs use prohibition to imply caution that sends warning to avoid danger or risk; imperative tasks to command or request a certain act; noun labels the name of a specific object or place; jargon displays a specialized terms used by a group or profession; negative fronting denotes a strong emphasis of the action not to be taken; and politeness marker concerns a strategy to convey request or command. The findings of this study show that linguistic features of environmental signs suggest caution, warning, command, and information for safatey and orderly city.

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