Publications

Publication details [#51435]

Nikolova Veselinova, Ljuba and J. C. Booza. 2009. Studying the multilingual city: a GIS-based approach. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 30 (2) : 145–165.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language death | language shift | language use | multilingualism | urban community

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Drawing on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology and US Census data from the year 2000, this study explores the language structure of -and in particular home language shift and death in- the multiethnic, multilingual Detroit metropolitan area.