0 a sign with information on it or showing the name of a business, school, hospital, etc. :
A signboard by the entrance proclaimed that the business had been established in 1852.
There might be some shared strategies, conscious or unconscious, among signboard producers for disseminating spatial information to automotive travelers.
Sequential occurrences turned out to be more frequently observed than co-occurrences, totaling 83 cases out of 419 signboards.
Thus, each signboard and the expressions therein represent cooperation and compromise among the assessments made by the unspecified par ticipants of variable geographic contexts.
In order to streamline and facilitate communication, signboards usually follow a relatively unified format for presenting spatial information.
Let us now imagine that an interested driver happens to miss the first or second half of the information on these signboards.
Next to the signboard of the border ' out-post ', a piece of string, raised by permission of the immigration officer, served as symbol of sovereignty.
I also interviewed several signboard producers in the region in order to obtain insiders' information regarding the processes leading to the final product.
In total, 419 signboards and 575 tokens of spatial descriptions were collected for the current study.
