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While the two chapters that follow this one will focus on the role of particular linguistic features in the construction of identity and space (Chapter 4 will look at the alternating use of German and English, and Chapter 5 will look at the use of forms of address), we will begin the analysis section of the book in this chapter with a look at the role played by perceptions of language use in constructing identity and space. Here, we will analyze participants’ ideas and opinions about the important languages and varieties that make up what we will refer to as their linguascape , or the repertoire of languages that are available to our participants in their daily lives and which exist as a part of their current surroundings and/or in the memories of their past. By that definition, a linguascape is not itself a space, but it encompasses all of the various codes that are of communicative and cultural relevance within a space. The spatial metaphor is deliberate, and by using it we mean to underscore the way the languages of a space form part of that space’s environment, and are as ever-present a part of that space as its physical landscape. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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