Table of contents
Prefacev
Introduction
Sociolinguistics in the Netherlandic language area1
Part One: Language And Social Class43
Why do some people speak in a more complicated way than others?45
The deficit hypothesis and the social stratification of mother talk69
Social differences in the acquisition of Netherlandic word formation85
Social linguistics and the failure of theories103
Pragmatic and conversational aspects of speech in families from different social milieus129
The difference hypothesis in the Kerkrade project: measurement of verbal abilities and intelligence169
Deficit and difference: a false dichotomy in an educational perspective193
Part Two: Language Attitudes211
Language attitudes of future teachers in The Netherlands213
Why do Antwerpians consider Netherlandic language varieties as ‘cultured’, ‘pleasant’, ‘beautiful’, ‘rich’?237
Language assimilation or ethnocentrism among Flemish people living in The Netherlands287
Ethnicity in Friesland319
Attitudes and experiences of discrimination: the Netherlandic of Moroccan foreign workers333
List of contributors357
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