Mutual Comprehensibility of Written Afrikaans and Dutch: Symmetrical or Asymmetrical?

The two West-Germanic languages Dutch and Afrikaans are so closely related that they can be expected to be mutually intelligible to a large extent. The present investigation focuses on written language. Comprehension was established by means of cloze tests on the basis of two newspaper articles. Results suggest that it is easier for Dutch subjects to understand written Afrikaans than it is for South African subjects to understand written Dutch. In order to explain the results, attitudes as well as several types of linguistic distances were assessed. The relations between attitude scales and in... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Gooskens, Charlotte
van Bezooijen, Renée
Dokumenttyp: TEXT
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Verlag/Hrsg.: Oxford University Press
Schlagwörter: Original Articles
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/21/4/543