Language contact in heritage languages in the Netherlands
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Suzanne Aalberse
Abstract
This paper discusses heritage languages (HLs) in the Netherlands. First, different types of motivations for the study of heritage languages in general are presented, since the type of motivation for the interest in heritage speakers has a large impact on the type of phenomenon researched. Formal, sociolinguistic, pedagogical perspectives are presented together with the perspectives of language change. Secondly, key findings in related immigrant languages research in the Netherlands are presented from various fields such as code-mixing and code-switching, loss and attrition and superdiversity. Thirdly, the initial results of a case study on the Chinese languages as heritage languages in the Netherlands are presented, concerning these languages, and sketching the recent history and trajectory of the Chinese languages in the Netherlands. It is clear that the study of the Chinese languages, but the same holds for several other HLs as well – Malay, Spanish, etc. – can best be studied from the perspective of superdiversity.
Abstract
This paper discusses heritage languages (HLs) in the Netherlands. First, different types of motivations for the study of heritage languages in general are presented, since the type of motivation for the interest in heritage speakers has a large impact on the type of phenomenon researched. Formal, sociolinguistic, pedagogical perspectives are presented together with the perspectives of language change. Secondly, key findings in related immigrant languages research in the Netherlands are presented from various fields such as code-mixing and code-switching, loss and attrition and superdiversity. Thirdly, the initial results of a case study on the Chinese languages as heritage languages in the Netherlands are presented, concerning these languages, and sketching the recent history and trajectory of the Chinese languages in the Netherlands. It is clear that the study of the Chinese languages, but the same holds for several other HLs as well – Malay, Spanish, etc. – can best be studied from the perspective of superdiversity.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
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Capturing superdiversity
- Using correspondence analysis to model immigrant multilingualism over time 27
- Capturing diversity 45
- Measuring language diversity in urban ecosystems 75
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Language acquisition and practice
- Foreign language acquisition in heritage speakers 99
- Heteroglossia in English complementary schools 123
- Enough is enough 143
- The primary classroom as a superdiverse hetero-normative space 161
- Assessing narrative development in bilingual first language acquisition 179
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Examples of language contact and change
- Detecting historical continuity in a linguistically diverse urban area 193
- Four decades of study of synchronic variation in varieties of Dutch. A sketch 227
- Language contact in heritage languages in the Netherlands 253
- Chinese and globalization 275
- Author index 297
- Subject index 301
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
-
Capturing superdiversity
- Using correspondence analysis to model immigrant multilingualism over time 27
- Capturing diversity 45
- Measuring language diversity in urban ecosystems 75
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Language acquisition and practice
- Foreign language acquisition in heritage speakers 99
- Heteroglossia in English complementary schools 123
- Enough is enough 143
- The primary classroom as a superdiverse hetero-normative space 161
- Assessing narrative development in bilingual first language acquisition 179
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Examples of language contact and change
- Detecting historical continuity in a linguistically diverse urban area 193
- Four decades of study of synchronic variation in varieties of Dutch. A sketch 227
- Language contact in heritage languages in the Netherlands 253
- Chinese and globalization 275
- Author index 297
- Subject index 301
