Chapter published in:
Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch Oladé Aboh
[Contact Language Library 57] 2020
► pp. 342–364

Sociolinguistic enregisterment through languagecultural practices

| Humanities Cluster (KNAW) & Maastricht University
| University of Amsterdam
This chapter will explore the effects of the sociolinguistic enregisterment of Heerlen Dutch in the carnivalesque summer song Naar Talië/Naar Talia ‘To (I)taly’, performed and uploaded onto YouTube by a band called the Getske Boys. The Getske Boys is a group of three male performers who, by selecting a particular set of linguistic forms from dialect, Dutch, in-betweens, Italian and English, work to enregister these as local to Heerlen-Noord and the speech of the coal miners who once lived there. Their selection of specific co-occurring forms is based on perceived past patterns of co-occurrences: an experiential knowledge, accumulated over the years, of the indexical ties between linguistic forms, specific (groups of) people and a specific place.
Keywords: coal mining, enregisterment, Heerlen Dutch, indexicality, languageculture, parodic language use, place-based identities, place-making, stereotyping
Published online: 29 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/coll.57.11cor
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