Language Landscape: A digital platform for mapping languages. Issue 1 (1st October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dohle, Ebany; Grzech, Karolina; Hemmings, Charlotte
• Is Part Of: Book 2.0. Volume 4:Issue 1(2014)
• Page Start: 71
• Page End: 89
• Publication Date: 2014-10-01
• Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Publishers and publishing -- Periodicals; Book design -- Periodicals; Electronic publishing -- Periodicals; Books -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 070.5
• DOI: 10.1386/btwo.4.1-2.71_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2042-8022

Abstract

Language Landscape (LL) is a non-profit organization set up by a group of postgraduate linguistics students in 2011. It comprises of an interactive online map (languagelandscape.org), which is the main focus of this article, and educational outreach projects. The LL Mapping model relies not on representing languages per se, but rather on using instances of language use as data points. This method can be particularly useful for mapping language variation and multilingualism, especially in urban contexts. Through digitization, LL reaches a wide audience of educators, primary and secondary school students, university students, academic researchers, minority and endangered language communities and finally, social media users.