Sociolinguistics in the low countries / edited by K. Deprez.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Deprez, Kas.

Belgische Vereniging voor Toegepaste Linguïstiek.

Conference Name:

Sociolinguistics Conference (2nd : 1980 : University of Antwerp)

Series:

Studies in the sciences of language series ; 5.

Studies in the sciences of language series ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Netherlands--Congresses.

Sociolinguistics.

Sociolinguistics--Belgium--Congresses.

Dutch language--Social aspects--Congresses.

Dutch language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN THE LOW COUNTRIES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; Introduction. SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN THE NETHERLANDIC LANGUAGE AREA; 1. THE NETHERLANDIC LANGUAGE AREA; 1.1. A POLITICALLY COLOURED DESCRIPTION; 1.2. A LINGUISTICALLY COLOURED DESCRIPTION; 1.3. A SOCIOLINGUISTICALLT COLOURED DESCRIPTION; 2. NEHERLANDIC SOCIOlINGUISTICS; 2.1. LANGUAGE VARIATION AND LANGUAGE DIVERSITY; 2.2. LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL INTERACTION; 2.3. LANGUAGE AND DISADVANTAGE; 3. LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS; 1. The necessity of accounting for the influence of the situation

2. The necessity of incorporating the dialect-standard dimension3. The necessity for reflection on linguistic measurement; 4. The necessity to study language structure in all its facets; 5. The necessity to study language in its natural context; 4. LANGUAGE ATTITUDES; NOTES; REFERENCES; Part one. LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS; WHY DO SOME PEOPLE SPEAK IN A MORE COMPLICATED WAY THAN OTHERS ?; 1. ESSENCE OF THE DEFICIT-DIFFERENCE CONTROVERSY; 2. A STUDY OF SYNTACTIC (AND LEXICAL) DIFFERENCES IN THE FLEMISH TOWN OF MAASEIK; 2.1. HYPOTHESES; 2.2.0. BASES OF THE STUDY; 2.2.1. Informants/social clas

2.2.2. Situation2.2.3. Linguistic variables : measuring syntactic complexity; 2.3. RESULTS; 3. INTERPRETATION OF THE MAASEIK RESULTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE DEFICIT HYPOTHESIS AND THE SOCIAL STRATIFICATION OF MOTHER TALK; SYNTAX; 1. Syntactic diversity; 2. Syntactic complexity; VOCABULARY; NOTE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE ACQUISITION OF NETHERLANDIC WORD FORMATION; NOTE; REFERENCES; SOCIALLINGUISTICS AND THE FAILURE OF THEORIES; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SOCIAL LINGUISTICS; III. THE INADEQUACIES OF THE DIFFERENCE/DEFICIENCY HYPOTHESES; IV. A SOCIAL LINGUISTIC MODEL

V. SOCIAL LINGUISTICS AND ACTION THEORY : DIALECT IN THE CLASSROOMVI. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; PRAGMATIC AND CONVERSATIONAL ASPECTS OF SPEECH IN FAMILIES FROM DIFFERENT SOCIAL MILIEUS; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. THE DEFICIT-DIFFERENCE CONTROVERSY; 2. THE COLLECTION OF DATA; 3. THE DATA ANALYSIS; 3.1. THE ANALYSIS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF TURN-TAKING; 3.2. THE ANALYSIS OF SCHOOLISH SPEECH ACTS; 3.3. THE ANALYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS; 4. THE RESULTS; 4.1. THE ANALYSIS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF TURN-TAKING; 4.1.1. 'Winning and losing'; 4.1.2. 'Dependency'; 4.1.3. 'Speech success'

4.1.4. 'Interruption and winning self-selection'4.1.5.Tentative conclusion; 4.2. THE ANALYSIS OF SCHOOLISH SPEECH ACTS; 4.3. THE ANALYSIS OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS; 4.3.1. Global comparison between both families; 4.3.2. 'Strategy, explicitness, major type'; 4.3.3. The recipient repertoire of Marian and Floortje; 4.3.4. Tentative conclusion; 5. CONCLUSION; NOTE; REFERENCES; THE DIFFERENCE HYPOTHESIS IN THE KERKRADE PROJECT : MEASUREMENT OF VERBAL ABILITIES AND INTELLIGENCE; 0. ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION : THE DIFFERENCE HYPOTHESIS WITHIN THE KERKRADE PROJECT

2. MEASUREMENT OF VERBAL ABILITIES : SOME RESULTS

Notes:

"Papers read at the Second Sociolinguistics Conference of the Association belge de linguistique appliquee ... held at the University of Antwerp ... on the 9th and 10th of May, 1980"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-42470-3

9786613424709

90-272-7992-6

OCLC:

769344138