Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde - Volume 138, Issue 4, 2022

Abstract The present paper seeks to shed light on the language-ideological dynamics of contemporary (1995-2018) Belgian media discourses that present multilingualism as a problem. Conceiving of the media as meaningful actors in (re)producing, recontextualising and naturalising language-ideological discourses, we analyse a corpus of 170 French- and Dutch-medium press articles containing multilingualism-as-problem orie Read More

Abstract Schultze and Müller were two well-known cartoon figures who commented on German (Prussian) society and politics in the satirical magazine Kladderadatsch, from 1848 onwards. Their petty bourgeois mindset allowed them to criticize the absurdity of everyday life. Kladderadatsch and its main characters were imitated in Dutch satirical magazines: in Uilenspiegel, Kwik and Kwak engaged in similar di Read More