Minority languages through the lens of the linguistic landscape
- When we first started the project of looking at minority languages through a linguistic landscape lens, we felt that the visibility of minority languages in public space had been insufficiently dealt with in traditional minority language research. A linguistic landscape approach, as it had developed over the last years, would constitute a valuable path to explore, by looking at the ‘same old issues’ of language contact and language conflict from a specific angle. We were convinced that fresh linguistic landscape data would be able to provide innovative and useful insights into ‘patterns of language […] use, official language policies, prevalent language attitudes, [and] power relations between different linguistic groups’ (Backhaus 2007, p. 11). The linguistic landscape approach, as presented by the different authors in this volume, has clearly proven to be a heuristic appropriate and relevant for a wide range of minority language situations. More specifically, the ideas and analyses in the different chapters do contribute to a further understanding of minority languages and their speakers. They deepen our comprehension of language policies, power relations and ideologies in minority language settings.
Author: | Luk Van MenselORCiDGND, Heiko F. MartenORCiDGND, Durk GorterORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-124951 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360235_18 |
ISBN: | 978-1-349-32322-7 |
ISSN: | 2947-5880 |
Parent Title (English): | Minority languages in the linguistic landscape |
Series (Serial Number): | Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities (-) |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of publication: | London |
Editor: | Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten, Luk Van Mensel |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2024/02/08 |
Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
Tag: | language contact; language ideology; language policy; minority language; multilingual matter |
GND Keyword: | Ideologie; Language attitude; Linguistic Landscape; Minderheitensprache; Sichtbarkeit; Sprachkonflikt; Sprachkontakt; Sprachpolitik |
First Page: | 319 |
Last Page: | 323 |
Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich. Due to copyright, the full text of this article is not freely accessible. |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | nein |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |