This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the
concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes, which expressly …

More than 22 million people speak Dutch-primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname,
and the Antilles. Roland Willemyns here offers a well-researched and highly readable …

Dutch is a pluricentric language with Dutch Dutch as the dominant variety and Belgian Dutch
in the non-dominant position. In discussions on the pluricentrism of Dutch there is a …

This chapter critically analyses the labelling of youthful language use in Belgium and the
Netherlands. Urban youthful speech practices have in recent years been assigned a variety …

This article investigates three neglected determinants of native speakers' attitudes toward
regional accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch, namely, accent strength, speaker …

The growing variability in Europe's standard languages has spawned widely shared
accounts of destandardization, as well as premonitions of the death of the very idea of a …

This book investigates the ideological dimensions of the various (de) standardisation
processes conspicuously present in contemporary Europe. It is a welldocumented fact (for …

Few areas in late-modern Europe manifest language dynamics which are so exciting (to
linguists) and controversial (to non-linguists) as those witnessed in Flanders, the Dutch …

This paper investigates the interactional behavior and the socio-pedagogical valorization of
translanguaging practices of teachers and pupils in a multilingual and a monolingual …

This paper reports a speaker evaluation experiment that investigated the competition
between three regional accents of Standard Dutch and references to the speaker's …