Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries

Editor

Kas Deprez

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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.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/ssls.5

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction
Sociolinguistics in the Netherlandic language area Roeland van Hout	1
Part One: Language And Social Class	43
Why do some people speak in a more complicated way than others? Jef Van den Broeck	45
The deficit hypothesis and the social stratification of mother talk Ludovic Beheydt	69
Social differences in the acquisition of Netherlandic word formation W.A.J. Smedts	85
Social linguistics and the failure of theories Piet Van de Craen	103
Pragmatic and conversational aspects of speech in families from different social milieus Erica Huls	129
The difference hypothesis in the Kerkrade project: measurement of verbal abilities and intelligence Ton Vallen, Sjef Stijnen and Anton M. Hagen	169
Deficit and difference: a false dichotomy in an educational perspective Jan Sturm	193
Part Two: Language Attitudes	211
Language attitudes of future teachers in The Netherlands Frans Diederen, Han Hos, Henk Munstermann and Gerrit Weistra	213
Why do Antwerpians consider Netherlandic language varieties as ‘cultured’, ‘pleasant’, ‘beautiful’, ‘rich’? Kas Deprez	237
Language assimilation or ethnocentrism among Flemish people living in The Netherlands Uus Knops	287
Ethnicity in Friesland Pieter van der Plank	319
Attitudes and experiences of discrimination: the Netherlandic of Moroccan foreign workers Pieter Muysken	333
List of contributors	357

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1988. Dutch dialectology. Historiographia Linguistica 15:1-2 ► pp. 263 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Germanic linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

History of linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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