Society and Language Use
Edited by Jürgen Jaspers, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.
Jürgen Jaspers
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jürgen Jaspers plays a role.
Title
Subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2023 Crossing Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment, D’hondt, Sigurd, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 21–45 | Chapter
2019 Authority and morality in advocating heteroglossia Language, Culture and Society 1:1, pp. 83–105 | Article
In this article I address the fact that influential strands in socio- and applied linguistics advocate heteroglossic policies in education and other monolingually organised domains without extending this heteroglossia to public debate about language policy. Often this occurs by presenting… read more
2018 Chapter 2. The boundaries of belonging: A commentary The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the margins, Cornips, Leonie and Vincent A. de Rooij (eds.), pp. 17–26 | Chapter
The chapters in this section form a fascinating combination in describing how quite different types of speakers negotiate a radical uprooting of their self-understanding, sense of place, and belonging. From the Bosavi villagers struggling to redefine themselves in the face of religious… read more
2017 The colour of Dutch: Some limits and opportunities of identifying Dutch ethnolects Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2, pp. 231–246 | Article
Many studies in recent years identify and discuss Dutch ethnolects. Generally this work takes linguistic phenomena as directly reflective of speakers’ ethnic identity. But if ethnicity is an inherent speaker feature, the absence of white ethnolect descriptions is difficult to explain. In this… read more
2016 Crisis thinking, sensuous reflexivity, and solving real issues Reflexivity in Late Modernity: Accounts from linguistic ethnographies of youth, Pérez-Milans, Miguel (ed.), pp. 199–213 | Article
2013 Hyperstandardisation in Flanders: Extreme enregisterment and its aftermath Pragmatics 23:2, pp. 331–359 | Article
Our intention in this article is to document and analyse an exceptional period in Flemish linguistic history that has not received a lot of attention thusfar, viz., the 1950s through the 1980s. We will argue that these decades mark a period best described as an era of hyperstandardisation, as they… read more
2010 Introduction – Society and language use Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
“The simplest and yet most important contribution of sociolinguistics [and similar disciplines willing to go under that flag] to social scientific knowledge is its insistence on recognizing the considerable variation in speech that exists within even the most homogeneous of societies. The second… read more
1991 Produktief Taalgebruik bij Het Leren Van Engels Met Its-english Schrijven in moedertaal en vreemde taal, pp. 138–150 | Article