A. Observation

This part of our portfolio presents a review of our Linguistic Landscape Study at Hermannplatz. After analysing the collected data and reflecting on our research method we asked ourselves what is missing, what would we change if we would do this project again and what would we have done if we would have had more time.

After looking at our study results we were surprised to discover that they were so different from our expectations. Instead of finding a very multilingual landscape around Hermannplatz we discovered, that Hermannplatz happens to be a very bilingual landscape with signs of shop fronts being mainly written in German and English. Not so much in Turkish and Arabic as we were expecting.

As we were a little confused about the results we asked ourselves what we could have missed or why our expectations were so different from our results. Thus, we had another look at the pictures we took just outside Hermannplatz, the side streets around Hermannplatz and especially Hermannstraße.

One of the main things we found out, is that expanding our radius towards Hermannstraße and the side streets of Hermannplatz would have given us a very different perspective and therefore very different results, as signs get (unexpectedly) way more multilingual as you move your focus further away from Hermannplatz. There you find mainly multilingual signs in Turkish, Arabic etc.

Therefore, to get the study results we were expecting we would have had to expand our research radius from Hermannplatz towards the side streets and especially towards Sonnenallee and Hermannstraße. But since the size of our study made it necessary to choose a small radius, we concentrated our focus on Hermannplatz only.

4. Assumptions

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