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Denna studie syftar mot att få ytterligare kunskap om lingvistiska landskap i en skolas miljö genom att undersöka hur flerspråkighet gestaltas i fysiska miljöer. Undersökningen har gjorts i en skola i norra Sverige och byggs upp av det sociokulturella perspektivets föreställning om språkets betydelse gällande elevers individ- och kunskapsutveckling. Vidare har skolan plats för cirka 700 elever, vilket har medfört att undersökningen koncentrerat sig på miljöer för elever i årskurs F–3. Studien ramas in av visuell etnografi som handlar mer om en kunskapsproduktion snarare än att endast samla in data. Totalt producerades 53 fotografier från skolans lingvistiska landskap som har stöttats upp av skriftliga fältanteckningar. Kombinationen av visuella och skriftliga fältanteckningar har använts för att skapa bredd i materialet. Den visuella etnografin är beroende av hur bilden används och tolkas för att synliggöra betydelser inom flerspråkighet. Därmed användes kvalitativ innehållsanalys med en konventionell ansats. Detta medförde att koder, etiketter och kategorier växte fram ur data. I det resultat som framställts visar det lingvistiska landskapet indikationer på fokus, underförstådda budskap och tankesätt om flerspråkighet. Studien påvisar att det växande forskningsfältet lingvistiska landskap kan medvetandegöra värdefull information om språkliga och sociala aspekter med bäring på elevers lärande., This study aims to get further knowledge about linguistic landscapes in a school's environment by examining how multilingualism is shaped in physical environments. The study was conducted in a school in northern Sweden and is based on the socio-cultural perspective's idea of the importance of language regarding pupils' development both in terms of identity and knowledge. Furthermore, the school was built for about 700 pupils, which has meant that the study concentrated on environments for preschool class to year three. This study is framed by visual ethnography, which focus more on a knowledge production rather than just collecting data. The material consists of 53 produced photographs from the school's linguistic landscape combined with written fieldnotes. Likewise, the visual ethnography depends on how the image is used and interpreted to make visible meanings in multilingualism. Thus, qualitative content analysis with a conventional approach was used. This meant that codes, labels and categories emerged from the data. In the results presented, the linguistic landscape shows indications of focus, implicit messages and ways of thinking about multilingualism. The study shows that the growing research field of linguistic landscapes can raise awareness of valuable information about linguistic and social aspects based on pupils' learning.

This pilot study focuses on commercial naming in the historical linguistic landscapes of Helsinki as depicted in historical photographs from 1867 to 1939 available from the collections of Helsinki City Museum. Due to the lack of historical data, only a few linguistic landscape studies have included a diachronic perspective. Some methodological consideration of the limitations of the material, such as the representability of the available photographs, is still needed, but overall, this type of material ofers potentially valuable insight into historical linguistic landscapes. My analysis offers some qualitative observations on multilingualism and on the commercial names themselves. The use of diferent languages (Swedish, Finnish, Russian) in Helsinki reflects the diferent sociolinguistic and political changes in the city throughout the years. The visible company names are mostly descriptive in nature, while international brand names are not dominating as in modern landscapes, only appearing towards the end of the analysed time period. The informative commercial signage also raises questions of the limits between proper names and other features on signs., This volume presents a selection of revised and edited papers given at the sixth conference on Names in the Economy (NITE), which was held in Uppsala in June 2019.

Bus stop names and the Swedish language – two case-studies of linguistic landscapes in the Helsinki Region This paper deals with a category of names not previously discussed within onomastics: the names of bus stops. As the stops are most often named after streets, areas etc., their use as an identifier for a bus stop is only a secondary function of these names. In a multilingual setting, these names can be given and used in more than one language in parallel, as is the case in the Helsinki Region where the official names of bus stops are given in both Finnish and Swedish. Regarding minority languages, the names have both an informative and a symbolic function when used in linguistic landscapes. The main aim of this paper is to discuss how the use of bilingual names for bus stops can affect the overall visibility of the de facto minority language, Swedish, in both physical and virtual linguistic landscapes. This question is discussed through two case-studies. In the first case-study, I focus on the linguistic landscapes around three bus stops in the monolingual municipality of Tuusula. As practically no Swedish is used in the linguistic landscapes (apart from the village that is the location of a Swedish-language school), the introduction of bilingual names for bus stops can be considered to positively affect the visibility of Swedish and make bilingualism more explicit. In the second case-study, I comment on the virtual linguistic landscape of the route planner website of the Helsinki Regional Transport, HSL. As the service is built around separate versions for the two languages, no bilingualism is evident. Instead, two monolingual virtual landscapes with only Finnish or Swedish names are created, with Finnish names even appearing in some parts of the Swedish language version. Thus, the focus on digital information might diminish the visibility of the bilingual namescape., Boken utgiven i sammarbete med NORNA-förlaget, Uppsala. Ingår även i serien NORNA-rapporter (ISSN 0346-6728), nr. 99.