@article{Adler2019, author = {Astrid Adler}, title = {Language discrimination in Germany : when evaluation influences objective counting}, series = {Journal of language and discrimination. Special Issue: Linguistic discrimination and cultural diversity in social spaces}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, publisher = {Equinox Publishing}, address = {Sheffield, United Kingdom}, issn = {2397–2645}, doi = {10.1558/jld.39952}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-94488}, pages = {232 -- 253}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Language attitudes matter; they influence people’s behaviour and decisions. Therefore, it is crucial to learn more about patterns in the way that languages are evaluated. One means of doing so is using a quantitative approach with data representative of a whole population, so that results mirror dispositions at a societal level. This kind of approach is adopted here, with a focus on the situation in Germany. The article consists of two parts. First, I will present some results of a new representative survey on language attitudes in Germany (the Germany Survey 2017). Second, I will show how language attitudes penetrate even seemingly objective data collection processes by examining the German Microcensus. In 2017, for the first time in eighty years, the German Microcensus included a question on language use ‘at home’. Unfortunately, however, the question was clearly tainted by language attitudes instead of being objective. As a result, the Microcensus significantly misrepresents the linguistic reality of different migrant languages spoken in Germany.}, language = {en} }