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Standardisation: Bolstering Positive Attitudes towards Endangered Language Varieties? Evidence from Implicit Attitudes
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Vari, Judit; Tamburelli, Marco – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Language maintenance research generally argues that providing endangered varieties with a standard impacts positively their vitality by e.g. increasing positive attitudes. This paper investigates whether different degrees of linguistic proximity between vernacular varieties and the standard may lead to different speakers' attitudes towards the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Positive Attitudes
The Use of Citetaal among Adolescents in Limburg: The Role of Space Appropriation in Language Variation and Change
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Marzo, Stefania; Ceuleers, Evy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
The term "Citetaal" was originally used to refer to the language spoken by Italian immigrants in the Eastern part of Flanders (Limburg) and diffused in the former ghettoised mining areas (the cite). It is a melting pot language, based on Dutch but with a high amount of code mixture from immigrant languages, mostly Italian and Turkish.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Adolescents
Networks, Language Variation and the Relevance of Sociolinguistic Research.
van de Craen, Pete – 1987
A discussion of the social network concept in sociolinguistics is examined from the perspective of language variation. This perspective is taken to gain insight into the actual importance of networks in speech communities and a more thorough understanding of a sociolinguistic concept that has drawn increasing attention in recent years. First, the…
Descriptors: Dutch, Foreign Countries, Interaction, Language Standardization
Watching Dutch Change: A Real Time Study of Variation and Change in Standard Dutch Pronunciation.
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Van de Velde, Hans; Van Hout, Roeland; Gerritsen, Marinel – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1997
Investigates phonological variation and change in southern and northern spoken Dutch (spoken in Northern Flanders and the Netherlands). The study examines changes in progress from 1935-93 using a combination of insight and techniques from historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. Results indicate that the southern variety remained stable while…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Change Agents, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
The Investigation of "Language Continuum" and "Diglossia": A Macrological Case Study and a Theoretical Model.
Willemyns, Roland – 1987
While the concepts of language continuum and diglossia are widely cited and discussed, they remain generally vague and are used in different ways by different linguists. Recent sociolinguistic research on Dutch-speaking Belgium provides a framework for examining the two concepts, a context for proposing a theoretical definition for language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Diglossia, Dutch
Problemes theoriques et methodologiques dans l'etude des langues/dialectes en contact aux niveaux macrologique et micrologique = Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Languages/Dialects in Contact at Macro- and Micro-Logical Levels of Analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference DALE (University of London)/ICRB (Laval University, Quebec)/ICSBT (Vrije Universiteit te Brussel) (London, England, May 23-26, 1985).
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Blanc, Michel, Ed.; Hamers, Josiane F., Ed. – 1987
Papers from an international conference on the interaction of languages and dialects in contact are presented in this volume. Papers include: "Quelques reflexions sur la variation linguistique"; "The Investigation of 'Language Continuum' and 'Diglossia': A Macrological Case Study and Theoretical Model"; "A Survey of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Diachronic Linguistics
Le Changement linguistique: Evolution, variation, and heterogeneite. Actes du colloque de Neuchatel Universite (Neuchatel, Suisse, 2-4 Octobre 2000) (Linguistic Change: Evolution, Variation, Heterogeneity. Proceedings of the University of Neuchatel Colloquium [Neuchatel, Switzerland, October 2-4, 2000]).
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Matthey, Marinette, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
Articles in this issue focus on language evolution, variation, and heterogeneity. The following are English translations of the French article titles appearing in the issue: "Irregular Phonetic Development Due to Frequency; Regional Traits in Proto-Romance"; "Linguistic Evolution and Evolution of Perspective in the Comparative…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Bilingualism, Creoles