Working Papers and a Bibliography?

Dear all,

Back in Tilburg now. Fully agree with David that Siena was a wonderful experience! (Thanks again to Monica and Carla, and also to Anna, Francesca, Mika, Raymond, Sabrina, Simone and Valentina for organising this truly unforgettable event.)

I was thinking it may be an idea to include a working paper series on the blog/website where documents can be can be pre-published as work in progress. It has already been suggested that the blog should contain a place where powerpoints etc. could be uploaded. I'm now suggesting this could be framed in a multi-media working paper series where all sorts of documents (ranging from PPTs, text files and posters) can be published (in the original sense of going public). A working paper series would just add a title (e.g., Work in Progress on Linguistic Landscapes) as well as some extra (online) visibility and retrievability. Comments pls.

The other thing we may like to work on collaboratively is a linguistic landscape bibliography containing our own work, but also references to work we consider foundational or just important for the field. A lot of these references can be found at the end of individual papers, but it may be interesting to have a more comprehensive central database that could be tagged with a couple of parameters. I'm not sure if the blog is the most adequate place to build up such a bibliography; this may be the sort of endeavour that thrives well with some sort of off-line coordination, for which I could volunteer to take initiative, together with maybe one or two others. Comments pls.

What are your research questions?

At the end of the wrap-up discussion at the Siena Linguistic Landscape Workshop on Saturday afternoon, several people suggested that we share research questions with each other. Please feel free to write these along with other thoughts or questions you have, extensions from our conversation on Saturday, etc.

Please respond with a comment to this post, or as a new post of your own. Send an e-mail to llsiena2009@gmail.com if you haven't yet been invited.

Grazie!

Welcome to the Linguistic Landscape blog!

Buongiorno e benvenuti sul blog. This blog has been created to allow anyone participating in the Siena LL workshop, and the broader community of scholars interested in linguistic landscape, to share thoughts, resources, and to continue our discussions online. It's open to anybody who's interested-- please send an email to llsiena2009@gmail.com and we will send you an invitation to become a contributor.

Also, please send any resources or links about linguistic landscape from your presentations, powerpoint files, etc. and we can add these as resources to the blog.

Shortly, we will post the abstracts for the papers as separate blog posts, so that you can comment and ask questions about each. These are currently available for download as a single file (see the "FILES" section to the right). You don't need to be registered for the blog to comment.

Lastly, please feel free to write in any language or combination of languages. Together, we can make this blog into a true multilingual linguistic space!

--from Monica, Carla, Francesca, Dave and other blog organizers