Over the Edge -November 7th 2012 VISITING SCHOLAR Lorna Carson, an Assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin has been at UNBC for 2 months out of her 6 month sabbatical studying language and lin- guistics in the Prince George commun- ity. Originally from Ireland, she is here as a visiting scholar after meeting Gary Wilson and Angele Smith during their Ireland and Isle of Man field school. Participating in the local community with organizations such as IMSS (Im- migrant and Multicultural Services Society) and funding from the Inter- national Council for Canadian Stud- ies and the Benefactions Fund from Trinity, Professor Carson is studying People, Place and Belonging as well as Multilingualism. Her main area of focus has been in communities such as Dub- lin and Prince George as part of a larger research project about Urban Multilin- gualism. “I’m glad that | can say | have made some very good friends here in Prince George through my research and work with the Prince George com- munity” says Dr. Carson. “luse a method called Linguistic Land- scaping where | follow different roots through a city and see where and when languages are used,” said Professor Carson. Her research in Prince George and Dublin is part of a larger project spanning many countries looking at Urban multilingualism through the use of different languages. Analyzing public signage, classrooms, ads and restaurants they look at language and its manifestations. “It’s like detective work. We want to know who speaks what and where and what it means.” Using an example of a flier for Chi- nese New Year from the Netherlands, Dr. Carson illustrates how through the study of the languages one can tell the flier was meant for people of the Dutch speaking community as the main language on the flier was Dutch. She went on to discuss how the Chi- nese language on the flier was mainly tokenistic in order to give more credit to the fliers legitimacy as advertise- ment for a Chinese new year event. She studies where and when certain languages are used, whether they are high or low status languages, are they are functional or symbolic, and if there is monolingual written language but multilingual spoken language in an area. “What's interesting is there is a com- parison between the loss of lower status languages in Europe and the loss of indigenous languages here in Canada,” Carson continues, “some- thing like ‘Il speak Punjab, but only at home’ and ‘yeah | guess | speak Kurd- ish, but really that’s only with my mum: Through understanding how _lan- guages are treated and thought about we can possible save or preserve many languages on their way to extinction” Dr. Carson will be heading to Los An- geles before returning to Ireland to continue her research work on linguis- tics and language use until the end of GRAD STUDENT SPOTLIGHT LEILA MAHEIDDINIBONAB STUDENT LIFE EDITOR ADAM KANTAKIS Name: Adam Kantakis Age: 27 Program: Interdisciplinary Studies (Anthropology/First Nations Studies) Who is Michael Adam Kantakis? 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