Language attitudes and identity building in the linguistic landscape of Montreal

Leimgruber, Jakob R. E.; Fernández-Mallat, Víctor

doi:10.1515/opli-2021-0021

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“…Bilinguals from Montreal use both languages independent of their location, especially in informal contexts such as on the street and in coffee houses (Lamarre et al, 2002). This is unexpected given the results from previous studies based on different methodologies ranging from tweet analysis to picture analysis of street signs, which show a clear geographic separation of languages in Montreal, indicating more English in the west and more French in the east (Bouchard, 2000;Laur, 2003;Termote, 2003;Mocanu et al, 2013;Leimgruber and Fernández-Mallat, 2021). However, the latter studies did not investigate language use by bilinguals as the authors in Lamarre et al (2002) study did, which might explain the difference in the results.…”

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Probing sociodemographic influence on code-switching and language choice in Quebec with geolocation of tweets

Kellert

2023

Front. Psychol.

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This paper investigates the influence of the relative size of speech communities on language use in multilingual regions and cities. Due to peoples’ everyday mobility inside a city, it is still unclear whether the size of a population matters for language use on a sub-city scale. By testing the correlation between the size of a population and language use on various spatial scales, this study will contribute to a better understanding of the extent to which sociodemographic factors influence language use. The present study investigates two particular phenomena that are common to multilingual speakers, namely language mixing or Code-Switching and using multiple languages without mixing. Demographic information from a Canadian census will make predictions about the intensity of Code-Switching and language use by multilinguals in cities of Quebec and neighborhoods of Montreal. Geolocated tweets will be used to identify where these linguistic phenomena occur the most and the least. My results show that the intensity of Code-Switching and the use of English by bilinguals is influenced by the size of anglophone and francophone populations on various spatial scales such as the city level, land use level (city center vs. periphery of Montreal), and large urban zones on the sub-city level, namely the western and eastern urban zones of Montreal. However, the correlation between population figures and language use is difficult to measure and evaluate on a much smaller sub-urban scale such as the city block scale due to factors such as population figures missing from the census and people’s mobility. A qualitative evaluation of language use on a small spatial scale seems to suggest that other social influences such as the location context or topic of discussion are much more important predictors for language use than population figures. Methods will be suggested for testing this hypothesis in future research. I conclude that geographic space can provide us information about the relation between language use in multilingual cities and sociodemographic factors such as a speech community’s size and that social media is a valuable alternative data source for sociolinguistic research that offers new insights into the mechanisms of language use such as Code-Switching.

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Probing sociodemographic influence on code-switching and language choice in Quebec with geolocation of tweets

Kellert

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Regarding multilingualism in this linguistic landscape, Muriungi and Mudogo (2021) examined the linguistic landscape in the context of multilingualism at universities in Kenya. Leimgruber and Fernández-Mallat (2021) studied language attitudes and identity building in the linguistic landscape of Montreal. In Belgrade, Canakis (2018) identified contesting identity in the LL.…”

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Culinary in Public Space

Sudarmanto,

Benu,

Aji

et al. 2024

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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As a tourism destination area in Central Java, public spaces in Tawangmangu are interesting to examine from a linguistic landscape perspective. This study aims to reveal the culinary presence that is displayed in the outdoor media public space in the Tawangmangu tourism area, Karanganyar Regency, Central Java. This study used a descriptive qualitative method and linguistic landscape theory from Landry and Bourhis (1997) which refers to the visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region. This study also examined the dominant and subordinate groups. The findings reveal that most of the culinary delights shown in Tawangmangu's public spaces are local (traditional) culinary delights. This means that as a destination area, Tawangmangu is dominated by local (domestic) and foreign tourists who consume a lot of traditional food. In addition, traditional culinary delights are still well maintained in tourist destination areas where tourists are not only local but also from abroad.

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“…Today, urban spaces often become the object of linguistic analysis as they are explained to provide a sociolinguistic context for the understanding of the dynamics of language use (Al-Naimat & Saidat, 2019). Linguistic landscapes are shown to reflect the language situation of a place as the realization of the official language policy (Alomoush, 2023;Ngampramuan, 2022), reveal the value and symbolic significance of languages employed in state and commercial public signs (Saduov et al, 2022), reflect the strategies used to preserve local languages and introduce local cultures on a global scale (Artawa et al, 2023), and contribute to identity construction (Im, 2023;Leimgruber & Ferná ndez-Mallat, 2021). Although research interest in linguistic landscapes has witnessed a sharp rise in recent years, few studies have dealt with linguistic landscapes through a translanguaging lens.…”

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Translingual Practices in the Linguistic Landscape in the Western Region of Kazakhstan

Utegenova,

Umarova

et al. 2024

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In spite of the sharp rise of research interest in linguistic landscapes worldwide, little attention has been given to the multilingual urban discourse of Kazakhstan. Being first in the investigation into the multilingual practices characteristic of the linguistic landscape in the western region of Kazakhstan, our study adds to the number of linguistic landscape analyses through a translanguaging lens. This paper explores translingual practices on local "bottom-up" commercial public signs by the example of four major cities in the region: Aktau, Aktobe, Atyrau and Uralsk. The study uses a mixed method research design combining qualitative and quantitative analysis of multilingual urban texts accompanied by semi-structured ethnographic interviews with owners of commercial establishments. In our analysis, we specify various dynamic and creative forms of mixing the state Kazakh, interethnic Russian, international English and/or other local languages such as Uzbek and Arabic. We demonstrate how these languages are involved in the creation of symbolic meanings and attraction of potential consumers and contribute to the construction of the urban space of the western region of Kazakhstan. We provide illustrations of the ever-growing presence of English in multilingual written urban texts of the region as a symbol of modernity, high quality, innovation, technical progress and prestige. We also show the indexical potential of the Kazakh and Russian languages as markers of local affiliation and tradition, and the Uzbek and Arabic languages as symbols of the Turkic and Islamic cultures.

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Language attitudes and identity building in the linguistic landscape of Montreal

Cited by 6 publications

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Probing sociodemographic influence on code-switching and language choice in Quebec with geolocation of tweets

Probing sociodemographic influence on code-switching and language choice in Quebec with geolocation of tweets

Culinary in Public Space

Translingual Practices in the Linguistic Landscape in the Western Region of Kazakhstan

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