Research method question - observing lg use in public spaces

[Emily McEwan-Fujita]

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for studies from any language-related field that would describe
a research method for making structured observations of the relative
frequency of use of different languages or varieties 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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Editor, Small Languages & Small Language Communities Section
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman
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