The linguistic landscape of the city of Opole (Opole, Poland)
– For German, scroll down, please! – As part of the ‘OPOling CITYscape’ project, German studies students at the University of Opole are analysing the linguistic landscape of the city of …
Have you ever wondered how many signs you pass on your daily way to work? In which languages these signs are lettered? And how language in public space changes over time? Welcome to Lingscape!
Writing is everywhere in public space. All different kinds of signs and lettering form the linguistic landscape of a place or community. Often these signs display different languages, be they on the same sign or next to each other. Lingscape is an app for researching such linguistic landscapes all over the world. Therefore we collect photos of signs and lettering on an interactive map.
Our main objectives: We want to analyze the diversity and dynamics of public writing. And we want to do that together with people from all over the world.
You can help us to collect as many photos as possible. Upload your own photos or explore the map with all photos added by other users. Share photos you like with your friends. Become a citizen scientist by contributing to the project.
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Take photos of signs and lettering in public space! Help us document and analyze language use and visible multilingualism
Create your own projects, publish your own datasets! Get your project account to use Lingscape for your research
Build your own corpus, publish your own datasets! In our public repository, your data is citable and future-proof
Explore the map with all photos uploaded by users! Discover polymorphic linguistic landscapes all over the world
List of recent additions to the language list, new features and updates
List of press coverage appearances and mentionings of the project in the media
List of project-related outreach activities, publications, and talks
The app is available for download and use worldwide. Plus, we have just released the group update with improved features for the creation of teams and working groups within project. If you would like to use the app for an individual or group project, just let us know.
These basic stats will be updated manually on a weekly basis.
– For German, scroll down, please! – As part of the ‘OPOling CITYscape’ project, German studies students at the University of Opole are analysing the linguistic landscape of the city of …
– For English, scroll down, please! – Das Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) und stadtteilbezogene Kooperationspartner führen aktuell das Citizen-Science-Projekt „Die Sprach-Checker – So sprechen wir in der Neckarstadt“ zur Erforschung …
Lingscape is all about opening spaces for collaboration and co-explorataion, and about providing you with the means to do so through our apps & platform. If you want to use the app for your own research project, just let us know. The platform is open for everyone.
Here you can find some projects that we are happy to host on our platform. Want that for your own project, too? Just drop us a line.
The PhD project explores the visible language diversity on the campus of the TU Darmstadt using photos of signs, posters, stickers and other written signs. In the Citizen Science project, you become part of the research yourself.
AlpiLinK (Alpine Languages in Contact) is the new project hosted at the VinKo crowdsourcing website. The project aims to gather numerically relevant information about the Germanic and Romance dialects and minority languages and dialects spoken across the Alpine regions of Italy.
The project “Die Sprach-Checker” stems from a cooperation with the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim that engages in Citizen Science activities. It is a state-funded, prize-winning citizen science project on multilingualism in Mannheim, Germany.
The VisibLL project is a recent addition to our list of international cooperations. Led by a Vienna-based research team, the project explores the LL of the city together with teachers and students. The project is funded by the “Sparkling Science” initiative of the OEAD.
Lingscape is part of the following Citizen Science platforms that foster participatory research
You miss a language you want to tag? You want to use the app for your own research? You are working on a linguistic landscaping project? Just drop us a line. We are happy to welcome you in the project.
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