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English in the linguistic landscape of Vienna, Austria
[Englisch in der Wiener Sprachlandschaft]

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Principal Investigator [Projektleiterin]: Asst. Prof. Mag. Dr. Barbara Soukup, MSc

Funding agency [Geldgeber]: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project No. V 394-G 23

Running time [Zeitraum]: Fall 2014 - Fall 2021

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Project activities: Important milestones [zentrale Projektaktivitäten]









2021
Pfeil Ende
Concluding project conference: Quantitative Linguistic Landscape Research 2.0: Variationist Linguistic Landscape Study (VaLLS2021)
University of Vienna, Sept. 24-25, 2021

Data coding - final touches
Data crunching
Methods Development
regarding ELLViA Module 3 ('Establishing the social meanings Viennese LL sign-readers commonly associate with English language use'): The 'Linguistic Landscape-Guise Technique (LLGT)'

VaLLS2021 Conference

2020



2019
ELLViA timeline continued Data coding
Data crunching
Methods Development/Piloting
regarding ELLViA Module 3 ('Establishing the social meanings Viennese LL sign-readers commonly associate with English language use'): The 'Linguistic Landscape-Guise Technique' (LLGT)
First statistical data analyses
Publication
Soukup (2020)
Preparations for archiving in ARCHE
Piloting

2018




ELLViA timeline continued


Data coding and first results
Publications (Schuster 2018, Amos & Soukup 2019)



[Project intermittently interrupted fall 2016 - fall 2018]
ELLViA next steps

2016





ELLViA timeline continued
Fieldwork and data entry for Project Module 1 - "Locating and describing English language use in the Viennese LL" are completed
Publication Soukup (2016)
Fieldwork Stop


ELLViA timeline continuedFieldwork for Project Module 1 continues, with simultaneous data entry into spreadsheetsELLViA Data entry


ELLViA timeline continued
Data coding workshop with Peter Backhaus (Waseda University, Tokyo), author of Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo (2007) Peter Backhaus and the ELLViA Team


ELLViA Timeline continued
Fieldwork for Project Module 1 - "Locating and describing English language use in the Viennese LL" in six Viennese administrative districts begins ELLViA fieldwork

2015
ELLViA timeline continued Fieldwork preparations for Project Module 1 - "Locating and describing English language use in the Viennese LL"



Consultation visit with the project
Metropolenzeichen (E. Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen)
ELLViA Fieldwork preparation notes

2014
ELLViA timeline beginning
First activities include a presentation of the project at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Austrian applied linguistics association verbal,
as well as the preparation of a press release appearing in January 2015 (auf Deutsch)




The ELLViA project is launched on October 1st, 2014.
Conference poster