Research method question - observing lg use in public spaces

[Francis Hult]

The work on linguistic landscapes might be useful to you.  Here are two recent books:
 
Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery:
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415988735/ <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415988735/> 
 
Linguistic Landscape in the City:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847692979 <http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847692979> 
 
Francis
 
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Francis M. Hult, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
University of Texas at San Antonio
 
Web: http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/ <http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/> 
 
New Book in 2011: Educational Linguistics in Practice: Applying the Local Globally and the Global Locally
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847693525 <https://ruby1604.utsa.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847693525> 
 
New Book in 2010: Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics
http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/book/978-90-481-9135-2 <http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-90-481-9135-2> 

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Subject: [LINGANTH] Research method question - observing lg use in public spaces



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
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