Focus group recruitment

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Jennie Dailey-O’Cain

We’re pleased to announce that we’re now recruiting for our upcoming online (on Zoom) focus groups! If you’re a young (between 18-29) German-speaking person in Mannheim or Leipzig, we’d love it if you would participate, and you’ll receive a 20-Euro gift card for amazon.de for your time. Check out this link for more information and to express interest.

Puzzling out “interactive” linguistic landscape data

Posted on January 20, 2022 by Jennie Dailey-O’Cain

For a paper we’re working on about interaction in the linguistic landscape, this message scrawled on an institutional nameplate on a building in Leipzig became a puzzle: What language was the message in, what did the words mean, and most importantly, what did the message imply?

We’re still working on the last question, but after some digging by our team member Richard, we found out that the words are “stop bzdurom”, in Polish (which, given the words’ location on a sign depicting a Polish Institute of Berlin in Leipzig, is intriguing), and it translates loosely to “stop the bullshit”. Anyone else working on linguistic landscape data finding bits of “interactive” data like this?

Data collection training

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Jennie Dailey-O’Cain

Today Jennie took Wangtaolue on a training session in linguistic landscape data collection (right here in Edmonton)! The fall weather was excellent, and we had a lot of (COVID-safe) fun. It was great to get to chat about the different types of images that are useful to us.

Our weekly meetings

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Jennie Dailey-O’Cain

Our team is in three different locations (and three time zones!), so our meetings all take place online. Today we talked about a few thorny issues of coding linguistic landscape data in atlas.ti. The image we were discussing is from the Leipzig dataset.

coding meeting

Data collection in Mannheim and Leipzig

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Jennie Dailey-O’Cain

Our research assistant Regan is in Mannheim these days taking pictures of the different uses of English in the linguistic landscape. She’ll also be in Leipzig starting in mid-July. If you see her, give her a shout! (Ihr Deutsch ist übrigens wirklich ausgezeichnet.)

SSHRC-funded project dealing with functions of English in the landscapes of two German cities, and young Germans’ ideas about what using English in Germany is for.

Category Archives: Linguistic Landscapes

Focus group recruitment

Puzzling out “interactive” linguistic landscape data

Data collection training

Our weekly meetings

Data collection in Mannheim and Leipzig