Wim Vandenbussche
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wim Vandenbussche is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2214-1057
Titles
Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective
Edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche
Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 3] 2014. viii, 334 pp.
Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present
Edited by Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche
This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] 2003. vi, 480 pp.
2024 Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish-emigrant writing Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 276–300 | Chapter
This article aims to contribute to the study of Belgian Dutch as an immigrant language in North America. It does so with the specific hypothesis that the pre-migration sociolinguistic and language political context in migrants’ home countries plays an important role, in particular with regard to… read more
2014 The interplay of language norms and usage patterns. Comparing the history of Dutch, English, French and German Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2014 Norms and usage in nineteenth-century Southern Dutch Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 73–100 | Article
This chapter discusses norms and usage in 19th-century Southern Dutch. After a brief sociohistorical sketch, we provide an overview of the Southern normative tradition, discussing its roots in the 18th century and its further development in the early 19th century. Next, we introduce three case… read more
2012 The sociolinguistics of spelling: A corpus-based case study of orthographical variation in nineteenth-century Dutch in Flanders Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009, Kemenade, Ans M.C. van and Nynke de Haas (eds.), pp. 253–274 | Article
The reunion of the Northern and Southern Low Countries under William I (1814–1830) marked the beginning of a renewed and intensified linguistic contact between the North and the South of the Dutch linguistic area. Two writing traditions usually regarded as different came into close contact, giving… read more
2004 Triglossia and pragmatic variety choice in nineteenth-century Bruges: A case study in historical sociolinguistics Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:1, pp. 27–47 | Article
This article deals with the roles and functions of dialect, Dutch and French for Flemish upper class writers in the 19th century.
It argues against the common opinion that the linguistic situation at that time in Flanders can be characterized by rigid dichotomies such as formal French versus… read more
2003 Research directions in the study of language standardization Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 455–469 | Article
2003 Standard languages: Taxonomies and histories Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2003 Historische Sociolinguïstiek in Vlaanderen: Inspiratie voor Broodnodig Onderzoek in Nederland? Thema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek 4, pp. 39–49 | Article
Historical sociolinguistic research on the Dutch language area during the 19th century has so far mainly been concerned with the situation in Flanders. Given the crucial relevance of this period for the history and the development of Dutch, however, there is a great need for comparable research… read more
2002 Dutch orthography in lower, middle and upper class documents in 19th-century Flanders Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages, Linn, Andrew R. and Nicola McLelland (eds.), pp. 27–42 | Article
1999 Arbeitersprache: A Fiction? Variation in (Sub)standard language, Belemans, Rob and Reinhild Vandekerckhove (eds.), pp. 87–103 | Article
Abstract. This article discusses the structure of working class language use {Arbeitersprache) in Bruges during the 19th century. It will be demonstrated that the written language of this 'silent majority' of the population was a defective and ill-construed code, displaying defects at all… read more
1995 Reacties op "de Sociolinguïstiek in Het Nederlandse Taalgebied Anno 1995" Thema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek 2, pp. 105–116 | Article