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In:Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries
Edited by Kas Deprez
[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series 5] 1984
► pp. vii–viii

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Published online: 1 January 1984

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Table of contents

Prefacev

Introduction

Sociolinguistics in the Netherlandic language area1

Roeland van Hout

Part One: Language And Social Class43

Why do some people speak in a more complicated way than others?45

Jef Van den Broeck

The deficit hypothesis and the social stratification of mother talk69

Ludovic Beheydt

Social differences in the acquisition of Netherlandic word formation85

Social linguistics and the failure of theories103

Piet Van de Craen

Pragmatic and conversational aspects of speech in families from different social milieus129

The difference hypothesis in the Kerkrade project: measurement of verbal abilities and intelligence169

Deficit and difference: a false dichotomy in an educational perspective193

Part Two: Language Attitudes211

Language attitudes of future teachers in The Netherlands213

Henk Munstermann

Why do Antwerpians consider Netherlandic language varieties as ‘cultured’, ‘pleasant’, ‘beautiful’, ‘rich’?237

Language assimilation or ethnocentrism among Flemish people living in The Netherlands287

Ethnicity in Friesland319

Pieter van der Plank

Attitudes and experiences of discrimination: the Netherlandic of Moroccan foreign workers333

List of contributors357