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Vickers, Caroline H.; Lindfelt, Christopher; Greer, Marsha – Language Policy, 2015
This study examines physical aspects of place and how such visible aspects work to index a discourse of insecurity, including an insider-outsider binary, particularly through security signs in the linguistic landscape (LL). Our main focus is the relationship between policy and the uses of written language that appear in the LL in different census…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Signs, Language Planning, Written Language
Basque Autonomous Community, Vitoria (Spain). General Secretariat of Linguistic Policy. – 1989
Sociolinguistic data are presented in the form of sophisticated maps and tables in this pioneering study on the status of the Basque language. Based on information collected from the 1986 census, the major demographic characteristics of Basque are examined in order to ascertain the factors and processes that have contributed to its current status.…
Descriptors: Basque, Demography, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance