[lg policy] query: making structured observations of language use in public places in multilingual situations

[Harold Schiffman]

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Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for studies from any language-related field that would describe
a research method for making structured observations of language use in
public places in multilingual situations.

I am looking for something similar to the Basque efforts described in
Jacqueline Urla's 1993 article "Cultural Politics in an Age of Statistics:
Numbers, Nations and the Making of Basque Identity," American Ethnologist
20(4):818-843. (Not the posting of the statistics in the village square, but
a description of the actual methods used for the collection of the
statistics on public language use to begin with.)

Would such methodologies be more likely found in research reports that are
not indexed in the academic journal databases?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions!

Emily

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Emily McEwan-Fujita, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies
Saint Mary's University
Halifax  B3H 3C3
Nova Scotia
Canada

emilymcfujita at gmail.com
http://smu-ca.academia.edu/EmilyMcEwanFujita

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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