ARTIGO LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE VIRTUAL LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE: THE CASE OF THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN E-GOVERNMENT NATIONAL PORTAL (Linguagem política no cenário virtual linguístico: o caso do portal nacional do e- governo do Reino de Barém) Yasser A. Gomaa 1 (Assiut University, Egypt University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain) Recebido em: janeiro de 2020 Aceito em: junho de 2020 DOI: 10.26512/les.v21i2.29354 1 Associate Professor in linguistics. He worked in many prestigious universities for more than two decades. He is a member of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and the Arab Society of English Language Studies. His research interests lie in the areas of language as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, cross-cultural pragmatics, genre analysis, linguistic landscape, discourse analysis, English/Arabic translation, machine translation, computer-assisted translation, and computer-assisted language learning. ORCID: 0000-0003-1503-4337. Email: gomaa@aun.edu.eg