Linguistic Landscapes and minority languages
- Studies on the Linguistic Landscapes (LLs) investigate frequencies, functions, and power relations between languages and their speakers in public space. Research on the LL thereby aims to understand how the production and perception of signs reflect and simultaneously shape realities. In this sense, the LL is one of the most dynamic places where processes of minoritization take place: the (in)visibility of minority languages and the functional and symbolic relationships to majority languages are in direct relationship with negotiations of minorities’ place in society. This chapter looks at minority languages in the LL from two major perspectives. Firstly, it discusses language policies, focussing on which policy categories and which domains of language use are of particular relevance for understanding minority languages in the LL. Then, it turns to issues of conflict, contestation, and exclusion by providing examples from a range of geographically and typologically prototypical case studies, including Israel, Canada, Belgium, the Basque Country, and Friesland.
Author: | Durk GorterORCiDGND, Heiko F. MartenORCiDGND, Luk Van MenselORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-115020 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54066-9_19 |
ISBN: | 978-1-137-54066-9 |
Parent Title (English): | The palgrave handbook of minority languages and communities |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of publication: | London |
Editor: | Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bernadette O’Rourke |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/02/06 |
Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) [Zweitveröffentlichung] |
Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
Publicationstate: | Postprint |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
Tag: | conflict; language policy; linguistic landscapes; public space; signs |
GND Keyword: | Fallstudie; Gesellschaft; Konflikt; Linguistic Landscape; Minderheit; Minderheitensprache; Sprachpolitik; Zeichen; Öffentlicher Raum |
First Page: | 481 |
Last Page: | 506 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Linguistics-Classification: | Sprachpolitik |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |