Visuals to Ideologies: Exploring the Linguistic Landscapes of Mindanao State University Marawi Campus

The research demonstrated the linguistic landscapes of Mindanao State University Marawi Campus in Southern Philippines, known as “Melting Pot South”, where multilingualism, multiculturalism, and multimodality were quite situated. Linguistic Landscape (LL) encompassed manifested range language use society. Under theoretical lens linguistics, aimed to qualitatively descriptively illustrate tokens that marked context school community. needed data photographed collected inside university premises analyzed terms number languages used, choice, types signs. reveals a sociolinguistic paradox: multilingual realities community prevalent exhibitions monolingual English on its landscapes, which consequently seems dishearten status, propagation, promotion, and/or effectivity policies education Philippines. Furthermore, provides practical contributions. Theoretically, it shows another notion presumed prestige hierarchies. practically, aids deepening knowledge understanding use, implications, public spaces. Finally, suggests revisiting recalibrating exhibition multilingualism country by simply considering status their environments, they do not just reflect or manifest but also propagate promote them.