Publications

Publication details [#51386]

Vandekerckhove, Reinhild. 2009. Dialect loss and dialect vitality in Flanders. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (196-197) : 73–97.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper on dialect loss and change in present-day Flanders (Belgium), discusses the development towards a new diglossia: Standard Dutch reserved for formal domains, and a “regiolectal” variety for informal (youth) colloquial speech, with a clear dominance of the Brabant–Antwerp dialect region.