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Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries
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This volume contains the papers read at the Second Sociolinguistics Conference of the Association Belge de Linguistique Appliquee (Belgian Association of Applied Linguistics) that was held at the University of Antwerp on the in May, 1980. The papers are grouped around two topics: 'Language and Social Class' and 'Language Attitudes'. The whole is preceded by an introductory article by R. Van Hout in which he presents the Netherlandic language area, describes how sociolinguistics is developing in this area and briefly discusses the essence of each paper.
[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 5] 1984. viii, 359 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 December 2011
Published online on 19 December 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. v–vi
- Introduction
- Sociolinguistics in the Netherlandic language areaRoeland van Hout | p. 1
- Part One: Language And Social Class
- Why do some people speak in a more complicated way than others?Jef Van den Broeck | p. 45
- The deficit hypothesis and the social stratification of mother talkLudovic Beheydt | p. 69
- Social differences in the acquisition of Netherlandic word formationW.A.J. Smedts | p. 85
- Social linguistics and the failure of theoriesPiet Van de Craen | p. 103
- Pragmatic and conversational aspects of speech in families from different social milieusErica Huls | p. 129
- The difference hypothesis in the Kerkrade project: measurement of verbal abilities and intelligenceTon Vallen, Sjef Stijnen and Anton M. Hagen | p. 169
- Deficit and difference: a false dichotomy in an educational perspectiveJan Sturm | p. 193
- Part Two: Language Attitudes
- Language attitudes of future teachers in The NetherlandsFrans Diederen, Han Hos, Henk Munstermann and Gerrit Weistra | p. 213
- Why do Antwerpians consider Netherlandic language varieties as ‘cultured’, ‘pleasant’, ‘beautiful’, ‘rich’?Kas Deprez | p. 237
- Language assimilation or ethnocentrism among Flemish people living in The NetherlandsUus Knops | p. 287
- Ethnicity in FrieslandPieter van der Plank | p. 319
- Attitudes and experiences of discrimination: the Netherlandic of Moroccan foreign workersPieter Muysken | p. 333
- List of contributors | pp. 357–359
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