Taal en Tongval - Volume 67, Issue 1, 2015

Abstract Prototypical CMC features in Flemish teenagers’ chat language. The influence of gender, age and medium In the present study, the use of allegedly typical and mostly universal, genre-bound chatspeak features is examined, such as leetspeak, acronyms, abbreviations and other shortening mechanisms. We investigate how common they actually are in a large written chat corpus (more than two million words), pro Read More

Abstract1 ‘Stabilisation’ of tussentaal? The language repertoire in the Westhoek as test case In several European language areas, processes of dialect levelling and dialect loss have led to an increasing use of varieties intermediate between dialects and standard language (Auer 2005). In Flanders, these intermediate varieties – mostly referred to as tussentaal – are also penetrating contexts in which Standard Dutch used t Read More

Abstract The ideological position of Standard Dutch in Flanders: the standard language ideology under pressure? In this paper, the results of a perception study in Flanders are reported. 80 informants were subjected to a qualitative interview, to gain insight in the way Flemish language users judge on the situational appropriacy of several Dutch language varieties. The reported beliefs of the informants were compared to Read More