{"id":1109,"date":"2015-12-03T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2015-12-03T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:37:36","slug":"new-research-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/2015\/12\/03\/new-research-story\/","title":{"rendered":"New research story: Berlin Lives by Patrick Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Berlin Lives: Multilingual Metropolis<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/files\/2015\/12\/DSC00043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1096\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/files\/2015\/12\/DSC00043-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00043\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/ml\/about\/staff\/prs1.page?\">Patrick Stevenson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know a great deal about multilingualism \u2013 but not as much as we might think. It\u2019s certainly true, for example, that great efforts have been devoted to identifying and counting the world\u2019s languages: global language research organisations tell us that over 700 languages are spoken by indigenous peoples in Indonesia alone. And further research claims to reveal the number of speakers there appear to be for each language and its relative degree of \u2018vitality\u2019: how widely is it used in a given location and for what purposes, is its number of speakers growing or declining, is it used as a medium of instruction in schools?<\/p>\n<p>But interesting though these research findings are, they leave many questions unanswered. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/research-stories\/berlin-lives-multilingual-metropolis\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin Lives: Multilingual Metropolis Patrick Stevenson We know a great deal about multilingualism \u2013 but not as much as we might think. It\u2019s certainly true, for example, that great efforts have been devoted to identifying and counting the world\u2019s languages: global language research organisations tell us that over 700 languages are spoken by indigenous peoples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158094],"tags":[208281,1037818,62362],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-stories","tag-germany","tag-language-biographies","tag-multilingualism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Sp7t-hT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}