Sarah Van Hoof
Biographic Data
| ID | 243229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Van Hoof |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Hoof |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HOOF S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6678-6059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Language assistance in the Criminal Court: How fair is it to substitute written translation with oral interpreting
European Union Directive 2010/64/EU introduces a defendant’s right to receive written translations of documents in criminal proceedings but at the same time it allows Member States to substitute written translations with oral translations or summaries. Through an instrumental case study, this article investigates the implementation and adequacy of substituting written translations with oral interpreting for defendants with limited Dutch proficien…
Beyond She and He: A Framework for Studying the Cognitive, Psychological and Social Effects of Gender-Neutral Pronouns
In recent years, gender-neutral pronouns have emerged in different languages. We review current research on their emergence and offer an interdisciplinary framework for studying and understanding gender-neutral pronouns. Our framework is aimed at sparking and guiding interdisciplinary research on gender-neutral pronouns. The framework incorporates (cross-)linguistic and cognitive aspects of the function, use and processing of gender-neutral prono…
The Comprehensibility and Appreciation of Non-Binary Pronouns in Newspaper Reporting. The Case of Hen and Die in Dutch
This paper examines the effect of the recently introduced Dutch non-binary 3rd person pronouns hen and die on tesssxt comprehensibility and text appreciation in the context of newspaper reporting on non-binary persons. Moreover, it presents a first measurement of Flemish people’s familiarity with and attitudes towards this pronominal reform in Dutch in its early stage. In a survey experiment we compared the use of non-binary hen and die (both com…
Students’ attitudes towards an instructor’s foreign accent and non-standard language variety
This study reports the outcomes of a speaker evaluation experiment conducted in a higher educational context in Flanders, in which we investigated the influence of language variety (Standard vs. Colloquial Dutch), accent (Flemish vs. Eastern European) and name (Flemish vs. Eastern European) on students’ perceptions of a female university instructor. The results suggest that participants exhibited a relatively high level of tolerance toward both n…
Language policy at an abortion clinic: Linguistic capital and agency in treatment decision-making
Hyperstandardisation in Flanders: Extreme enregisterment and its aftermath
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 involved a large-scale, propagandistic, scientifically supported and highly mediatised linguistic standardisation campaign that has thoroughly ideologi…
The influence of ethnicity and language variation on undergraduates' evaluations of Dutch-speaking instructors in Belgium: A contextualized speaker evaluation experiment
If they could, they would put them on a drip with Dutch: Language learning and the professional integration of migrants in Flanders
This contribution investigates the rationale and implementation of an employment policy that envisions the quick insertion of migrants in the labour market through short and intensive language learning. We present an ethnographic analysis of a short and intensive course of Dutch for migrant job seekers developed in the context of Flemish employment policy. Our data show that the policy is framed in a discourse of empowerment and efficiency, but i…
Shifting multilingual strategies in a Flemish public healthcare service
This paper addresses the challenges service providers are facing amidst growing ethnolinguistic diversity in a neoliberal climate. We focus on the public service provider Kind & Gezin (K&G), the agency that monitors the wellbeing of young children on behalf of the Flemish authorities in Belgium. We demonstrate that the organisation has taken various multilingual measures that go against the government’s preference for monolingual service provisio…
Professional discourse in multilingual settings: Policies and practices
Civilization versus commerce: On the sociolinguistic effects of the deregulation of the TV market on Flemish public service broadcasting
Ceci n'est pas une Tussentaal: Evoking Standard and Vernacular Language Through Mixed Dutch in Flemish Telecinematic Discourse
This paper argues that the use of mixed Dutch, the speech style that Flemish linguists have come to name tussentaal (literally ‘interlanguage’) and which is made up of dialect and standard features, can index meanings conventionally associated with dialect and Standard Dutch, depending on the linguistic ecology in which it occurs. Consequently, and in contrast with current explanations that attribute context-independent social meaning to tussenta…
Intrinsic vowel F0, the size of vowel inventories and second language acquisition
If they could, they would put them on a drip with Dutch: Language learning and the professional integration of migrants in Flanders
This contribution investigates the rationale and implementation of an employment policy that envisions the quick insertion of migrants in the labour market through short and intensive language learning. We present an ethnographic analysis of a short and intensive course of Dutch for migrant job seekers developed in the context of Flemish employment policy. Our data show that the policy is framed in a discourse of empowerment and efficiency, but i…
Civilization versus commerce: On the sociolinguistic effects of the deregulation of the TV market on Flemish public service broadcasting
Intrinsic vowel F0, the size of vowel inventories and second language acquisition
Language policy at an abortion clinic: Linguistic capital and agency in treatment decision-making
The influence of ethnicity and language variation on undergraduates' evaluations of Dutch-speaking instructors in Belgium: A contextualized speaker evaluation experiment
Intrinsic vowel F0, the size of vowel inventories and second language acquisition
Ceci n'est pas une Tussentaal: Evoking Standard and Vernacular Language Through Mixed Dutch in Flemish Telecinematic Discourse
This paper argues that the use of mixed Dutch, the speech style that Flemish linguists have come to name tussentaal (literally ‘interlanguage’) and which is made up of dialect and standard features, can index meanings conventionally associated with dialect and Standard Dutch, depending on the linguistic ecology in which it occurs. Consequently, and in contrast with current explanations that attribute context-independent social meaning to tussenta…
Civilization versus commerce: On the sociolinguistic effects of the deregulation of the TV market on Flemish public service broadcasting
Shifting multilingual strategies in a Flemish public healthcare service
This paper addresses the challenges service providers are facing amidst growing ethnolinguistic diversity in a neoliberal climate. We focus on the public service provider Kind & Gezin (K&G), the agency that monitors the wellbeing of young children on behalf of the Flemish authorities in Belgium. We demonstrate that the organisation has taken various multilingual measures that go against the government’s preference for monolingual service provisio…
Professional discourse in multilingual settings: Policies and practices
If they could, they would put them on a drip with Dutch: Language learning and the professional integration of migrants in Flanders
This contribution investigates the rationale and implementation of an employment policy that envisions the quick insertion of migrants in the labour market through short and intensive language learning. We present an ethnographic analysis of a short and intensive course of Dutch for migrant job seekers developed in the context of Flemish employment policy. Our data show that the policy is framed in a discourse of empowerment and efficiency, but i…
Hyperstandardisation in Flanders: Extreme enregisterment and its aftermath
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 involved a large-scale, propagandistic, scientifically supported and highly mediatised linguistic standardisation campaign that has thoroughly ideologi…
The influence of ethnicity and language variation on undergraduates' evaluations of Dutch-speaking instructors in Belgium: A contextualized speaker evaluation experiment
Language policy at an abortion clinic: Linguistic capital and agency in treatment decision-making
The Comprehensibility and Appreciation of Non-Binary Pronouns in Newspaper Reporting. The Case of Hen and Die in Dutch
This paper examines the effect of the recently introduced Dutch non-binary 3rd person pronouns hen and die on tesssxt comprehensibility and text appreciation in the context of newspaper reporting on non-binary persons. Moreover, it presents a first measurement of Flemish people’s familiarity with and attitudes towards this pronominal reform in Dutch in its early stage. In a survey experiment we compared the use of non-binary hen and die (both com…
Students’ attitudes towards an instructor’s foreign accent and non-standard language variety
This study reports the outcomes of a speaker evaluation experiment conducted in a higher educational context in Flanders, in which we investigated the influence of language variety (Standard vs. Colloquial Dutch), accent (Flemish vs. Eastern European) and name (Flemish vs. Eastern European) on students’ perceptions of a female university instructor. The results suggest that participants exhibited a relatively high level of tolerance toward both n…
Beyond She and He: A Framework for Studying the Cognitive, Psychological and Social Effects of Gender-Neutral Pronouns
In recent years, gender-neutral pronouns have emerged in different languages. We review current research on their emergence and offer an interdisciplinary framework for studying and understanding gender-neutral pronouns. Our framework is aimed at sparking and guiding interdisciplinary research on gender-neutral pronouns. The framework incorporates (cross-)linguistic and cognitive aspects of the function, use and processing of gender-neutral prono…
Language assistance in the Criminal Court: How fair is it to substitute written translation with oral interpreting
European Union Directive 2010/64/EU introduces a defendant’s right to receive written translations of documents in criminal proceedings but at the same time it allows Member States to substitute written translations with oral translations or summaries. Through an instrumental case study, this article investigates the implementation and adequacy of substituting written translations with oral interpreting for defendants with limited Dutch proficien…
Linguistics (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Flemish (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works)