Leonie Cornips er professor på The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) i Amsterdam og på universitetet i Maastricht. Leonie har bidratt med et betydelig forskningsarbeid innafor feltene sosiolingvistikk (variasjon og språkkultur), språktilegnelse og syntaktisk variasjon. De seinere åra har hun også bidratt til å utvikle forskningsfeltet på såkalt super-lingvistikk, mer spesifikt intra-/interspecies communication.
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The aim of this talk is twofold. In the first part, I will summarise what little is known about the acquisition of dialects and dialect features by locally born speakers whose parent(s) have a migration background, thus second-generation migrants in the Netherlands (henceforth: new speakers of Dutch, see O’Rourke and Pujolar 2013). To date, there has been little research on their dialect acquisition in the Netherlands. Therefore this chapter will bring together studies in sociolinguistics that have so far been undertaken.
The second part of the paper will focus on the province of Dutch Limburg, which is known for its widespread and active use of dialect, also in the public domain (Cornips 2013, 2018; Thissen 2018). I will explore how these new speakers acquire a dialect in Limburg but are restricted in their use of it by others who consider themselves the authentic speakers of this dialect. This part of the paper addresses the question as to why new speakers are not perceived as legitimate users of dialect.
References (selected)
- Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall. 2016. “Embodied Sociolinguistics.” In Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates, edited by Nikolas Coupland, 173–197. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Cornips, Leonie. 2014. “Socio-Syntax and Variation in Acquisition: Problematizing Bidialectal and Bilingual Acquisition.” Linguistic Variation 14 (1): 1–25.
- Cornips, Leonie. 2018. “Local Identity Construction in Dutch Limburg Through Dialect Forms, Use and Popular Culture.” In Linguistic Regionalism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: Minority, Regional and Microliterary Languages, edited by Dieter Stern, Motoki Nomachi, and Bojan Belić, 290–319. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Cornips, Leonie. 2020. “The Loss of a Regional Language in the Netherlands. Why Toddlers Give up Their Regional Language (Limburgish) After Entering Preschool.” Language in Society.
- Cornips, Leonie, and Vincent de Rooij. 2013. “Selfing and Othering Through Categories of Race, Place, and Language Among Minority Youths in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.” In Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, Identities, Space, Education, edited by Peter Siemund, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika E. Schulz, and Julia Davydova, 129–164. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Hill, Jane H. 1999. “Language, Race, and White Public Space.” American Anthropologist 100 (3): 680–689.
- Irvine, Judith T., and Susan Gal. 2000. “Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation.” In Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities, edited by Paul Kroskrity, 35–84. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
- Woolard, Kathryn. 2018. “Playing Against Peripheralization: A Commentary.” In The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging. Perspectives from the Margins, edited by Leonie Cornips and Vincent de Rooij, 115–124. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Velkommen!