TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Adler, Astrid
T1  - Language discrimination in Germany : when evaluation influences objective counting
JF  - Journal of language and discrimination. Special Issue: Linguistic discrimination and cultural diversity in social spaces
N2  - 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.
KW  - language attitudes
KW  - survey design
KW  - German Microcensus
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Sprachstatistik
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Mikrozensus
KW  - Sprachgebrauch
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-94488
SN  - 2397–2645
SS  - 2397–2645
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1558/jld.39952
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1558/jld.39952
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
SP  - 232
EP  - 253
PB  - Equinox Publishing
CY  - Sheffield, United Kingdom
ER  -