@article{Adler2019,
  author    = {Adler, Astrid},
  title     = {Language discrimination in Germany : when evaluation influences objective counting},
  journal   = {Journal of language and discrimination. Special Issue: Linguistic discrimination and cultural diversity in social spaces},
  volume    = {3},
  number    = {2},
  issn      = {2397-2645},
  doi       = {10.1558/jld.39952},
  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.},
  subject      = {Deutsch},
  language  = {en}
}