Northern Linguistic Landscapes

The NoLL research group is a network of researchers with a special interest in the study of Linguistic Landscapes. The research group is part of the Humlab focus area on visualization.

Ongoing research projects

The language of place-making. A mixed-method analysis of linguistic landscapes (2019-2021)
Coppélie Cocq, Eva Lindgren, Lena Granstedt, Urban Lindgren

The Production of Schoolscapes
Andreas Nuottaniemi

In this PhD-project, Andreas Nuottaniemi conducts an ethnographic study in two northern schools with diverse student populations. The aim of the study is to explore how language ideologies and relations of power are being (re)produced in the schoolscape (i.e. the linguistic landscape of the school), with a special focus on the representation and experiences of newly arrived and minority students. The project also examines how the language repertoires of the students as well as attitudes to languages and minority groups among policy makers, staff and students, are being reflected in the LL and how changes over time in the linguistic repertoires of students have come to affect the production of educational spaces.

Activities

Linguistic Landscape Studies:
Sharing knowledge and solving problems
Workshop at Umeå University, 23-24 October 2019.

Publications

Digital Maps for Linguistic Diversity

Developing methods for the study of linguistic landscapes in sparsely populated areas