ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an ethnographic study of a bilingual village speaking Low German and standard German in northern Germany which was conducted in 2001. Low German is a regional language spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands. Low German is in the process of language shift, which means that it is endangered. Most of its speakers belong to the older generations, and most parents do not raise their children to speak it. This has to do with the fact that Low German carried a stigma of being the language of the uneducated for a long time. As part of the ethnographic study a survey was conducted in 2001 in order to ascertain the villagers' attitudes towards Low German and to find out more about their linguistic practices. Visualisation in tables, graphs or charts is a preliminary stage in analysing quantitative data. Boxplot graphs are an ideal visualisation for data that contains continuous numbers.
