Backhaus returned to Germany for the duration of the First World War and did not make a return to the United States until 1923, joining the faculty of the Curtis Institute during the 1925–26 academic year.

6 These results (slightly updated) are based on and excerpted from Jürgen Backhaus, “Theoriegeschichte – wozu?: Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung.”

Apart from the linguistic landscape policies by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the 23 wards (Backhaus 2009, 2010a), researchers have explored multilingual information provision on signs in...

The effects of Backhaus’ legacy are still felt today in the Diocese of Sandhurst. Backhaus was known to have enjoyed and composed music, and these two sacred works set to Latin texts are all that have …

2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 This monograph investigates a particularly new area in sociolinguistic resea.

Peter Backhaus German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan This paper is about multilingual signs in Tokyo. It is based on empirical research conducted in 2003.

Backhaus describes two different approaches to language in signs in Rome. He concludes that the growing use of English on signs is a result of a general proclivity.