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- Title
The multidimensionality of domain configurations.
- Authors
van Hout, Roeland; Münstermann, Henk
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study that examined the suitability of a particular language variety in a number of domains in Netherlands. The language varieties involved in the analysis are Dutch dialects in contrast to Standard Dutch. Subjects were asked to give their judgments on the use of dialect on a six-point scale, ranging from very unsuitable to very suitable. In Flanders, the dialect versus standard-language situation approaches diglossia, whereas in Nijmegen the functional distribution is not so clear and may depend more on individual or group differences than on a community-wide shared norm. Results of interviews with parents of children from dialect-speaking areas found that they often prefer to educate their children in the standard language even though they are persistent speakers of the dialect in question themselves. School, of course, has been a standard-language domain for a long time, although some attention is paid nowadays to the problem of the discrepancy between language at home and language at school. In both student teachers' studies, the matched-guise techniques was used to elicit evaluative judgments on dialect and standard language. Instability in the judgments of a particular domain seems characteristic of a language-replacement process or language shift in that domain.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; VARIATION in language; DUTCH dialects; DIALECTS; DIGLOSSIA (Linguistics); SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1988, Vol 1988, Issue 74, p107
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.1988.74.107