The (near) absence of English in Flemish dinner table conversations
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Eline Zenner
Eline Zenner is assistant professor of Dutch proficiency at KU Leuven (Brussels), where she works on variational linguistics and contact linguistics within the context of the research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL). Before this, she held a FWO fellowship, followed by an FWO postdoc. In March 2013, she defended her PhD thesis, titled “Cognitive Contact Linguistics. The macro, meso, and micro influence of English on Dutch”, which has been awarded with the title of best PhD in linguistics by KANTL (2017).
Eline’s main research interests pertain to the dynamic forcefield of the Dutch linguascape, with three cornerstones: (1) Eline aims to uncover the structure of the variation between Colloquial Belgian Dutch and Standard Dutch as a means to contribute to our understanding of the social meaning of these varieties; (2) in her focus on Dutch-English contact, Eline emphasizes the opportunities that ensue from cross-fertilizing usage-based Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics. More particularly, she pays special attention to the methodological challenges that occur when aiming to measure the impact of lexical gaps and prestige on borrowability by combining research on production, perception and attitudes; (3) in both domains, Eline has recently started up research focusing on the acquisition of social meaning by children.
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Dorien Van De Mieroop
Dorien Van De Mieroop is a tenured associate professor of Dutch linguistics, proficiency and business communication at KU Leuven (Leuven), where she works in the research group Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse (MIDI). Before this, she held a post-doc position at KU Leuven (Antwerp) and a Teaching/research assistant position at the University of Antwerp (UA). She defended her PhD on identity construction in informative speeches in 2005 at UA.
Dorien’s main research interests lie in the study of identity and the social meaning of language, which she studies in three different research domains. (1) Within the field of interactional sociolinguistics, she scrutinizes the local interactional contexts of the variation between Colloquial Belgian Dutch, Standard Dutch as well as other language variants as a means to understand how the social meaning of these varieties is locally negotiated. (2) Within the field of (multimodal) discourse analysis, she studies the way people construct their professional identities – and negotiate these with their other identities – in a variety of workplace-related genres, such as performance appraisal interviews, job interviews and meetings. In relation to this research domain, she spent a four month research visit at the University of Warwick, UK, with Stephanie Schnurr (2012), two short research visits at the UNC, Córdoba, Argentina with Isolda Carranza (in 2016 and 2018) thanks to a bilateral research project that she coordinated between the UNC and KU Leuven, and a two month research visit at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, with Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra (2018). Furthermore, she recently obtained a grant (€ 100 000) for an interdisciplinary research project (with social psychology) about the identity dilemmas of upwardly mobile migrants in relation to the workplace. (3) Within the field of linguistic narrative analysis, Dorien focuses on how people construct their identities in relation to larger societal Discourses when telling stories. In relation to this, she spent a two month research visit at King’s College, London, UK, with Alexandra Georgakopoulou (2012) and several short research visits (in France, Austria and India). In 2016, she obtained a research grant (€ 203 000) for a PhD-project on World War II-narratives. She is also co-editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal
Narrative Inquiry .Dorien has published a co-authored book (in 2016, with Jonathan Clifton (University of Valenciennes, France)), several co-edited books (e.g. in 2017, with Stephanie Schnurr (University of Warwick, UK)) and more than 30 articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as
Journal of Pragmatics, Discourse & Society , andJournal of Sociolinguistics .
Abstract
This paper studies the low frequency of English insertions in child-directed speech in eight Flemish families, which is striking considering the strong position of English in other domains in Flanders. Crossing usage-based approaches to language acquisition and language socialization research, we scrutinize our corpus of dinner table conversations that consist of over 25,000 utterances, complemented by sociolinguistic interviews with the caregivers of each family. After mining our corpus for English insertions, we present a quantitative exploration that reveals how less than 1% of the utterances per family contain English insertions. Assessing whether this result can be interpreted as parents’ attempts to socialize their children towards Dutch, and what this reveals about their language regards, we analyze selected fragments through multimodal discourse analysis. After discussing possible implications of these findings for the position of English in Flanders, we additionally discuss them against the theoretical background of developmental sociolinguistics, and against the methodological background of working with small samples and negative evidence in a usage-based approach (see e.g. negative entrenchment.
About the authors
Eline Zenner is assistant professor of Dutch proficiency at KU Leuven (Brussels), where she works on variational linguistics and contact linguistics within the context of the research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL). Before this, she held a FWO fellowship, followed by an FWO postdoc. In March 2013, she defended her PhD thesis, titled “Cognitive Contact Linguistics. The macro, meso, and micro influence of English on Dutch”, which has been awarded with the title of best PhD in linguistics by KANTL (2017).
Eline’s main research interests pertain to the dynamic forcefield of the Dutch linguascape, with three cornerstones: (1) Eline aims to uncover the structure of the variation between Colloquial Belgian Dutch and Standard Dutch as a means to contribute to our understanding of the social meaning of these varieties; (2) in her focus on Dutch-English contact, Eline emphasizes the opportunities that ensue from cross-fertilizing usage-based Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics. More particularly, she pays special attention to the methodological challenges that occur when aiming to measure the impact of lexical gaps and prestige on borrowability by combining research on production, perception and attitudes; (3) in both domains, Eline has recently started up research focusing on the acquisition of social meaning by children.
Dorien Van De Mieroop is a tenured associate professor of Dutch linguistics, proficiency and business communication at KU Leuven (Leuven), where she works in the research group Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse (MIDI). Before this, she held a post-doc position at KU Leuven (Antwerp) and a Teaching/research assistant position at the University of Antwerp (UA). She defended her PhD on identity construction in informative speeches in 2005 at UA.
Dorien’s main research interests lie in the study of identity and the social meaning of language, which she studies in three different research domains. (1) Within the field of interactional sociolinguistics, she scrutinizes the local interactional contexts of the variation between Colloquial Belgian Dutch, Standard Dutch as well as other language variants as a means to understand how the social meaning of these varieties is locally negotiated. (2) Within the field of (multimodal) discourse analysis, she studies the way people construct their professional identities – and negotiate these with their other identities – in a variety of workplace-related genres, such as performance appraisal interviews, job interviews and meetings. In relation to this research domain, she spent a four month research visit at the University of Warwick, UK, with Stephanie Schnurr (2012), two short research visits at the UNC, Córdoba, Argentina with Isolda Carranza (in 2016 and 2018) thanks to a bilateral research project that she coordinated between the UNC and KU Leuven, and a two month research visit at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, with Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra (2018). Furthermore, she recently obtained a grant (€ 100 000) for an interdisciplinary research project (with social psychology) about the identity dilemmas of upwardly mobile migrants in relation to the workplace. (3) Within the field of linguistic narrative analysis, Dorien focuses on how people construct their identities in relation to larger societal Discourses when telling stories. In relation to this, she spent a two month research visit at King’s College, London, UK, with Alexandra Georgakopoulou (2012) and several short research visits (in France, Austria and India). In 2016, she obtained a research grant (€ 203 000) for a PhD-project on World War II-narratives. She is also co-editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Narrative Inquiry.
Dorien has published a co-authored book (in 2016, with Jonathan Clifton (University of Valenciennes, France)), several co-edited books (e.g. in 2017, with Stephanie Schnurr (University of Warwick, UK)) and more than 30 articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Discourse & Society, and Journal of Sociolinguistics.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Usage-based contact linguistics: An introduction to the special issue
- Towards a usage-based model of early code-switching: Evidence from three language pairs
- Individual entrenchment vs. community-wide conventionalization of contact features in L2 Basque speakers’ individual styles
- Entrenchment and productivity: The role of input in the code-mixing of a German-English bilingual child
- English-Estonian code-copying: Comparing blogs and vlogs
- A usage-based approach to “language” in language contact
- The (near) absence of English in Flemish dinner table conversations
- The Effects of Technology-Mediated TBLT on Enhancing the Speaking Abilities of University Students in a Collaborative EFL Learning Environment
- Conceptual issues in strategy research: Examining the roles of teachers and students in formal education settings
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Usage-based contact linguistics: An introduction to the special issue
- Towards a usage-based model of early code-switching: Evidence from three language pairs
- Individual entrenchment vs. community-wide conventionalization of contact features in L2 Basque speakers’ individual styles
- Entrenchment and productivity: The role of input in the code-mixing of a German-English bilingual child
- English-Estonian code-copying: Comparing blogs and vlogs
- A usage-based approach to “language” in language contact
- The (near) absence of English in Flemish dinner table conversations
- The Effects of Technology-Mediated TBLT on Enhancing the Speaking Abilities of University Students in a Collaborative EFL Learning Environment
- Conceptual issues in strategy research: Examining the roles of teachers and students in formal education settings
