The presence of minority languages in linguistic landscapes in Amsterdam and Friesland (the Netherlands)

• Edelman, Loulou ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Law Avans-Fontys, the Netherlands
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 228, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Multilingual and Multimodal Texts in Semiotic Space), págs. 7-28
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article describes an investigation of linguistic landscapes in the Netherlands. By means of a detailed quantitative analysis, it explores the extent to which the linguistic landscape reflects the languages spoken by the speech community. The study took place in both the capital city of Amsterdam, which has many immigrants and foreign tourists, and in the province of Friesland, which is home to a Frisian-speaking minority. The main finding is that in the linguistic landscape in both field sites, Dutch and English prevail, whereas minority languages have a limited presence. Differences in the ethnolinguistic composition of Amsterdam and Friesland's populations are partly reflected in differences between the linguistic landscapes.