Attitudes to English job titles in the Netherlands and Flanders ; Different because of different historical and sociolinguistic circumstances?
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate if English loanwords are perceived differently in Flanders and the Netherlands, two areas with a shared official language (Dutch) but different sociolinguistic background and history. It has been argued that because of historical French dominance over Flemish, attitudes towards loanwords in Flanders are negative, whereas in the Netherlands attitudes are more positive because Dutch has not been threatened by another language there. In an experiment with a between-subject design, 155 Dutch and Flemish university students evaluated three equiv... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Taal en Tongval ; volume 69, issue 1, page 89-111 ; ISSN 0039-8691 2215-1214 |
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Amsterdam University Press
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27470021 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/tet2017.1.meur |