This project investigates what (socio)linguistic factors are decisive in the functional implementation of a standard language, hypothesizing that newspapers played a crucial role in the expansion of the Dutch standard language, as the first mass medium read by all social classes.
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Understanding standardization of Dutch through 17th-century newspapers
- Duration
- 1 January 2020 until 1 September 2025
- Project member(s)
- M.T. de Vos (Machteld) MPhil , Prof. H. de Hoop (Helen)
- Project type
- Research
- Organisation
- Language Variation in 4D, Centre for Language Studies, Faculty of Arts
Results
- Vos, M.T. de & Meulen, M.S. van der (2024). Suppressed no more: prescriptivism and the evaluation of optional variability. In N. Yáñez‐Bouza, M. Rodríguez‐Gil & J. Pérez‐Guerra (Eds.), New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research (pp. 296-318). Multilingual Matters
- Vos, M.T. de (2022). Deze verscheydenheyt der Voornamen. Codification of third-person pronouns in Early Modern Dutch. Taal en Tongval, 74 (1), 107-146. doi:
- Vos, M.T. de (2022). In Between Description and Prescription: Analysing Metalanguage in Normative Works on Dutch 1550–1650. Languages, 7 (2):89. doi:
- Vos, M.T. de & Vogl, U. (2023). Wel iet wat verschelende, maar zó niet óf elck verstaat ander zeer wel. On language making in early modern mono- and multilingual grammars and textbooks. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 37 (1), 37-73. doi:
- de Vos, M. (2023). Het stijlboek van de weduwe: ontluikende standaardtaal in 17e-eeuwse kranten? In: Neerlandia 4, pp. 32-35.
Funding
NWO Open Competition SSH
