Linguistic Landscape-Forschung in sprachhistorischer Perspektive: öffentliche Bekanntmachungen in der Stadt Luxemburg im langen 19. Jahrhundert

peer reviewed ; In this article we outline how corpus-based studies can contribute to the methodology of linguistic landscape research. Linguistic-landscape research can be roughly understood as the “study of writing on display in the public sphere” (Coulmas 2009: 14). From a historical perspective, we investigate the emergence and use of the public sphere as a place of attention for official top-down communication in Luxembourg. Based on a large corpus of public announcements of the municipality of the city of Luxembourg, the history of public top-down communication is analysed by taking into... Mehr ...