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Publication details [#57355]

Jaspers, Jurgen and Sarah Van Hoof. 2013. Hyperstandardisation in Flanders: Extreme enregisterment and its aftermath. Pragmatics 23 (2) : 331–359.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and society | language use | language variety | standard1 vs. dialect2 | standardization

Language as a subject

Dutch, Belgian | Flemish

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper explores and documents an era of scientifically backed and very mediatised linguistic 'hyperstandardisation' in Flemish linguistic history, to wit the 1950s through the 1980s. The Flemish ‘intermediate variety’ (tussentaal) is considered a side-effect.