Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape

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by  Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten, Luk Van Mensel (eds.)

Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
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Worldwide migration and unprecedented economic, political and social integra-
tion in Europe present serious challenges to the nature and position of language
minorities. Some communities receive protective legislation and active support
from states through policies that promote and sustain cultural and linguistic
diversity; others succumb to global homogenization and assimilation. At the
same time, discourses on diversity and emancipation have produced greater
demands for the management of difference.
This series publishes new research based on single or comparative case studies
on minority languages worldwide. We focus on their use, status and prospects,
and on linguistic pluralism in areas with immigrant or traditional minority com-
munities or with shifting borders. Each volume is written in an accessible style
for researchers and students in linguistics, education, anthropology, politics and
other disciplines, and for practitioners interested in language minorities and
diversity.
Titles include:
Jean- Bernard Adrey
DISCOURSE AND STRUGGLE IN MINORITY LANGUAGE POLICY FORMATION
Corsican Language Policy in the EU Context of Governance
Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel (editors)
MINORITY LANGUAGES IN THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE
Nancy H. Hornberger (editor)
CAN SCHOOLS SAVE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES?
Policy and Practice on Four Continents
Anne Judge
LINGUISTIC POLICIES AND THE SURVIVAL OF REGIONAL LANGUAGES IN
FRANCE AND BRITAIN
Yasuko Kanno
LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION IN JAPAN
Unequal Access to Bilingualism
Janet Muller
LANGUAGE AND CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND CANADA
A Silent War
Máiréad Nic Craith
EUROPE AND THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE
Citizens, Migrants and Outsiders
Máiréad Nic Craith (editor)
LANGUAGE, POWER AND IDENTITY POLITICS
Bernadette O’Rourke
ATTITUDES TOWARDS WEAK AND STRONG MINORITY LANGUAGES
Galician and Irish in the European Context
Anne Pauwels, Joanne Winter and Joseph Lo Bianco (editors)
MAINTAINING MINORITY LANGUAGES IN TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS
Australian and European Perspectives
Susanna Pertot, Tom M. S. Priestly and Colin H. Williams (editors)
RIGHTS, PROMOTION AND INTEGRATION ISSUES FOR MINORITY LANGUAGES
IN EUROPE
Miquel Strubell and Emili Boix- Fuster (editors)
DEMOCRATIC POLICIES FOR LANGUAGE REVIVAL: THE CASE OF CATALAN
Linda Tsung
MINORITY LANGUAGES, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITIES IN CHINA
Glyn Williams
SUSTAINING LANGUAGE DIVERSITY IN EUROPE
Evidence from the Euromosaic project
Forthcoming titles:
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
LANGUAGE POLICY AND ECONOMICS IN AFRICA
Dovid Katz
YIDDISH AND POWER
Ten Overhauls of a Stateless Language
Peter Sercombe (editor)
LANGUAGE, IDENTITIES AND EDUCATION IN ASIA
Graham Hodson Turner
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC HISTORY OF BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE
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Minority Languages in the
Linguistic Landscape
Edited By
Durk Gorter
University of the Basque Country, Spain
Heiko F. Marten
Tallinn University, Estonia
and
Luk Van Mensel
University of Namur, Belgium
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2012
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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Overview Map of Cases Discussed in this Book xii
1 Studying Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape 1
Heiko F. Marten, Luk Van Mensel and Durk Gorter
Part I Language Ideologies and Linguistic Landscape
2 ‘Latgalian is not a Language’: Linguistic Landscapes in
Eastern Latvia and how they Reflect Centralist Attitudes 19
Heiko F. Marten
3 Transgression as the Norm: Russian in Linguistic
Landscape of Kyiv, Ukraine 36
Aneta Pavlenko
4 Minority Semiotic Landscapes: An Ideological Minefield? 57
Michael Hornsby and Dick Vigers
5 Language Ideological Debates in the Linguistic
Landscape of an Irish Tourist Town 74
Máiréad Moriarty
6 Linguistic Landscape as a Tool for Interpreting Language
Vitality: Arabic as a ‘Minority’ Language in Israel 89
Elana Shohamy and Marwan Abu Ghazaleh- Mahajneh
Part II Linguistic Landscape and Language Policy
7 Policies vs N on- Policies: Analysing Regional Languages
and the National Standard in the Linguistic Landscape
of French and Italian Mediterranean Cities 109
Robert Blackwood and Stefania Tufi
8 Two- Way Traffic: How Linguistic Landscapes Reflect
and Influence the Politics of Language 127
Guy Puzey
9 The Revitalization of Basque and the Linguistic
Landscape of D onostia- San Sebastián 148
Durk Gorter, Jokin Aiestaran and Jasone Cenoz
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10 All is Quiet on the Eastern Front? Language Contact
along the French- German Language Border in Belgium 164
Luk Van Mensel and Jeroen Darquennes
Part III The Distributive Approach to Linguistic Landscape
11 The Linguistic Landscape of Three Streets in Barcelona:
Patterns of Language Visibility in Public Space 183
Llorenç Comajoan Colomé and Ethan Long
12 The Linguistic Landscapes of Chis¸ina˘u and Vilnius:
Linguistic Landscape and the Representation of
Minority Languages in Two Post- Soviet Capitals 204
Sebastian Muth
13 Multilingual Societies vs Monolingual States:
The Linguistic Landscapes in Italy and Brunei Darussalam 225
Paolo Coluzzi
14 Using Linguistic Landscape to Examine the Visibility
of Sámi Languages in the North Calotte 243
Hanni Salo
Part IV Fresh Perspectives on Linguistic Landscape
15 Discourse Coalitions For and Against Minority Languages
on Signs: Linguistic Landscape as a Social Issue 263
Eszter Szabó Gilinger, Marián Sloboda, Lucija Šimičić
and Dick Vigers
16 The Linguistic Landscape of Educational Spaces: Language
Revitalization and Schools in Southeastern Estonia 281
Kara D. Brown
17 The Material Culture of Multilingualism 299
Larissa Aronin and Muiris Ó Laoire
18 Minority Languages through the Lens of the
Linguistic Landscape 319
Luk Van Mensel, Heiko F. Marten and Durk Gorter
Index 324
Notes on Contributors
Marwan Abu Ghazaleh- Mahajneh teaches at the Department of Arabic
Language and Literature, Beit Berl College, Israel. He is a doctoral student
at Haifa University. His research interests include various aspects of Arabic
in Israel, such as language policy, linguistic landscape and l anguage
rights.
[email protected]
Jokin Aiestaran is Lecturer of Research Methods in Education at the
University of the Basque Country. His research focuses on bilingual and
multilingual children. He has published papers on bilingual education,
the linguistic landscape and language attitudes.
[email protected]
Larissa Aronin is Senior Lecturer at the Oranim Academic College of
Education, Israel and a Research Associate at Trinity College, Dublin.
She has published in a range of international journals on a wide array
of topics connected with multilingualism.
[email protected]
Robert Blackwood is Head of French at the University of Liverpool, UK.
He carries out research projects on language policy, regional languages
of France and linguistic landscapes, and has published several articles
on those themes.
[email protected]
Kara D. Brown is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational
Studies at the University of South Carolina where she teaches courses
in social foundations, comparative education and qualitative research
methods. Her research focuses on language policy, minority schooling
and teacher practice in the Baltic States and the south- eastern US.
[email protected]
Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Education at the University of the Basque
Country. Her research focuses on bilingualism and multilingualism in
education. She has published extensively in international journals and
has edited several books on bilingualism and multilingualism.
[email protected]
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Paolo Coluzzi is currently working as Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of
Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. Until 2009 he was working at the University of Brunei
Darussalam. His research interests are endangered languages, language
planning, the linguistic landscape and nationalism.
[email protected]
Llorenç Comajoan Colomé is Associate Professor at the School of
Education at the Universitat de Vic, Spain. He is a member of the
University Centre of Sociolinguistics and Communication at Universitat
de Barcelona. He carries out research in second language acquisition,
language teaching and sociolinguistics.
[email protected]
Jeroen Darquennes is Associate Professor of German and General
Linguistics at the University of Namur (Belgium), Visiting Professor at
the Facultés Universitaires Saint- Louis (Brussels) and the University of
Luxembourg, and an affiliated Research Fellow at the Fryske Akademy/
Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language
Learning in Ljouwert/Leeuwarden (The Netherlands). He has special-
ized in research on language contact and language conflict in European
indigenous language minority settings (with a special emphasis on lan-
guage policy and planning).
[email protected]
Durk Gorter is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the
Basque Country. Before that he was at the University of Amsterdam and
the Fryske Akademy (The Netherlands). He does research on multilin-
gualism, European minority languages and linguistic landscapes. He has
published numerous books and articles on those themes.
[email protected]
Michael Hornsby joined the Celtic department of Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznan´, Poland, in October 2009, where he teaches Welsh
and Breton. He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
sociolinguistics at the University of Torun´, Poland. Before he worked on
a research project on Scots dialects at Aberdeen University, Scotland.
[email protected]
Ethan Long is currently a writer in the advertising industry in
Philadelphia, US. He studied in Barcelona in 2007 and 2008 and later
worked teaching English in Murcia, Spain.
[email protected]
Notes on Contributors ix
Heiko F. Marten currently holds a position as Researcher and Lecturer
in German linguistics at Tallinn University, Estonia. From 2007 until
2009, his main position was at Re¯zekne University College, Latvia,
where he continues to be involved in the TILRA project on regional
development. He has published on multilingualism, language policy
and minority languages in different European contexts. His research
includes issues of language policy in Germany, the Baltic States, political
decentralization and of motivation in foreign-language learning.
heiko.marten@ fu- berlin.de
Máiréad Moriarty teaches sociolinguistics and new media at the School
of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication at the University
of Limerick, Ireland. She is currently also a post- doctoral Research
Fellow on the Northern Multilingualism Project and the c o- ordinator of
the 3M: Identities in Motion research network funded by Nordforsk. She
has published in a number of edited books and journals.
[email protected]
Sebastian Muth is Lecturer in English Linguistics at Greifswald
University, Germany. He carries out research in linguistic landscapes as
well as studies on language attitudes, mainly focusing on post- Soviet
countries. He has specialized in linguistic landscape analysis, the study
of multilingualism and the interface between language and politics.
sebastian.muth@ uni- greifswald.de
Muiris Ó Laoire is Professor of Language Revitalisation Studies in the
International Centre for Language Revitalisation in AUT New Zealand. He
is author of textbooks, academic books and several articles on sociolin-
guistics, multilingualism language regeneration and language pedagogy.
[email protected]
Aneta Pavlenko is Professor at the College of Education at Temple
University, Philadelphia, US. Her research focuses on sociolinguistic
and psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism and second language
acquisition. She is particularly interested in language management in
post- Soviet countries.
[email protected]
Guy Puzey recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh,
UK. Linguistic landscapes are one of his main interests in sociolinguis-
tics, together with critical approaches to toponymy. He has published
a number of articles and book chapters on linguistic landscapes,