Research method question - observing lg use in public spaces

[PAUL B GARRETT]

Emily,

The burgeoning recent literature on "linguistic landscape" should be useful
to you in this regard.  Good places to start:

Shohamy, Elana, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, & Monica Barni (eds.), 2010.  *Linguistic
Landscape in the City*.  Multilingual Matters.

  http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847692979

Shohamy, Elana & Durk Gorter (eds.), 2008.  *Linguistic Landscape: Expanding
the Scenery*.  Routledge.

  http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415988735/

Jaworski, Adam & Crispin Thurlow (eds.), 2010.  *Semiotic Landscapes:
Language, Image, Space*.  Continuum.

  http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=132004


The research trend that these three volumes represent takes its inspiration
from a "seminal" article (which is rather ubiquitously cited):

Landry, R. & R.Y. Bourhis, 1997.  "Linguistic Landscape and Ethnolinguistic
Vitality: An Empirical Study."  *Journal of Language and Social
Psychology*16(1):23-49.


Yours,
Paul

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Paul B. Garrett
  Associate Professor
    & Director of Graduate Studies
  Department of Anthropology
  Temple University
  Philadelphia, PA  19122
  USA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.temple.edu/anthro/


On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Emily McEwan-Fujita <emilymcfujita at gmail.com
> wrote:

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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