Mapping Urban Linguistic Diversity in New York City: Motives, Methods, Tools, and Outcomes

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dc.contributor.authorPerlin, Ross
dc.contributor.authorKaufman, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorTurin, Mark
dc.contributor.authorDaurio, Maya
dc.contributor.authorCraig, Sienna
dc.contributor.authorLampel, Jason
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-06T02:35:23Z
dc.date.available2021-10-06T02:35:23Z
dc.date.issued2021-10
dc.description.abstractCommunities around the world have distinctive ways of representing language use across space and territory. The approach to and method of mapping languages that began with nineteenth-century European dialectology and colonial boundary making is one such way. Though practiced by relatively few linguists today, language mapping has developed considerably from its roots yet remains stymied by problems of ideology, representation, and data quality. In this paper, we argue that digital language mapping in hyperdiverse cities can both contribute to overcoming these problems and bring visibility and resources to communities using Indigenous, minority, and primarily oral languages. For these communities, official surveys like the census are often inadequate, leaving a gap that communities, linguists, and mapping experts working in partnership can address. Urban language mapping as a field should make space for Indigenous, minority, and primarily oral languages through geospatial visualization – in terms that the communities themselves recognize and with a public policy agenda. As a case study, we present our ongoing efforts with LANGUAGEMAP.NYC to map the most linguistically diverse urban center in the world: New York City.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent33 pages
dc.identifier.citationPerlin, Ross, Daniel Kaufman, Mark Turin, Maya Daurio, Sienna Craig, Jason Lampel. 2021. Mapping Urban Linguistic Diversity in New York City: Motives, Methods, Tools, and Outcomes. Language Documentation & Conservation 15: 458-490.
dc.identifier.doiISSN 1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/74664
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectDigital mapping
dc.subjectLanguage and languages--Variation
dc.subjectNew York (State)--New York
dc.titleMapping Urban Linguistic Diversity in New York City: Motives, Methods, Tools, and Outcomes
dc.typeArticle
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prism.endingpage490
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage458
prism.volume15

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