Rik Vosters
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3531328 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rik Vosters |
| NOMBRES | Rik |
| APELLIDO | Vosters |
| FIRMA | VOSTERS R |
| AFILIACIONES | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5985-6933 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Chronicles of change and layered transformation
Using a qualitatively historicized and contextualized approach to componential elements of the semiotic landscape of urban neighborhoods, this article analyzes the changes and transformations discernible over time in the outward appearance of the Chinatown area in Antwerp and Brussels. Building on Massey’s (1984) metaphor of the geological landscape and Lai’s (1988) model of the historical development of Chinatowns, we specifically examine how so…
Born and buried
A growing body of research in language, discourse, and social sciences shows that criminal records, like other institutional documents, are rooted in bureaucratic routines, reflecting the perspectives of record makers rather than objective, all-encompassing facts. During criminal proceedings, various law functionaries collect information to match real-life events with legal definitions—a process known as “institutional categorization.” This paper…
Heritage Spanish in Brussels
This exploratory study investigates the evolution of coda /s/ weakening in Andalusian Spanish as a heritage language spoken in Brussels. Ongoing change promoted by dialect contact with other Spanish varieties was assessed on speech data retrieved via interviews with first- and second-generation Andalusian immigrants in the city. Their coda /s/ production was analyzed in terms of perceptual categorization, acoustic evidence of frication, and durat…
Spanish as Immigrant Minority Language in Brussels
Despite its demographic relevance, Spanish as an Immigrant Minority Language (IML) remains understudied in Europe. In Brussels, approximately 46,500 residents have Hispanic heritage, but their linguistic practices have largely remained unexplored in sociolinguistic research. This paper presents a pilot study on the language practices of the Hispanic communities in the city in order to assess language maintenance and vitality. Through an online su…
When Socialism Meets Terrorism
Terrorist attacks, as a particular type of negative social event, are a potential threat to the establishment of a "Socialist Harmonious Society" advocated by the Chinese government. To shed light on how Chinese journalists construct reports on terrorist attacks and, more broadly, how non-Western countries report on negative social issues, we compared newspaper coverage of one domestic attack with four international incidents. Starting from Bedna…
Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective
In this chapter, Dutch prescriptivism is approached from a historical-sociolinguistic perspective. We first situate prescriptivism in the context in which it arose and explain how metalinguistic commentary became more institutionalized over time. We furthermore illustrate how the social embedding of language change, on the one hand, and the chronology of language change, on the other, are important factors to consider when measuring the impact of…
Convergence or divergence? A computer-assisted analysis of how Chinese state-sponsored and market-oriented newspapers discursively construct the newsworthiness of the Kunming terrorist attack
Language Maintenance and Shift in Highly Multilingual Ecologies
Brussels is an officially French-Dutch bilingual city, yet in reality, it is profoundly and increasingly multilingual. Earlier research on the linguistic situation in Brussels has predominantly focused on the competing dominant languages, resulting in very limited scholarly attention to smaller language communities. This paper addresses this blind spot by exploring the language repertoires, proficiencies and practices of members of the Chinese co…
Language Standardization ‘from Above’
Language standardization 'from above' occurs in situations in which language authorities seek to disseminate a standardized variety across a speech and writing community. Hence, the crucial aspect of language standardization 'from above' is implementation, in Haugen's terminology. In the history of many European languages, standardization 'from above' is a Late Modern phenomenon, closely tied to the rise of standard language ideology in the eight…
Dialect, language, nation
Over 50 years ago, the Norwegian-American linguist Einar Haugen published a seminal paper entitled ‘Dialect, language and nation’ (Am Anthropol 68:922–935, 1966b), in which he expounds his four-step model of standardization, explaining the development from dialect to standard following a process of norm selection, codification, acceptance and elaboration. In this article, we start by discussing the life and work of Einar Haugen, situating him wit…
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
Unraveling multilingualism in times past
Historical sociolinguistics
This article introduces the new Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics by situating it in the developing field of historical sociolinguistics. The landmark paper of Weinreich et al. (1968), which paid increased attention to extralinguistic factors in the explanation of language variation and change, served as an important basis for the gradual development and expansion of historical sociolinguistics as a separate (sub)field of inquiry, notably si…
Language ideological debates over orthography in European linguistic history
This introductory article to the special issue on the historical sociolinguistics of spelling sketches an overview of the current interest in the field for the sociopolitical nature of the written language. Spelling is understood as a powerful tool for sociopolitical mobilization and thus becomes a recurrent source of conflict. Orthographic debates are the object of study chosen by the authors in this special issue to analyze the non-linguistic d…
Three Southern shibboleths
Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a distinct Southern Dutch linguistic identity emerged in the region now known as Flanders, and spelling features are at the heart of this developing linguistic autonomy. By analyzing eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century normative and metalinguistic comments about three highly salient spelling variables (the spelling of the long vowels a and u in closed syllables, the ending 〈-n〉 or 〈-ø〉 in mascu…
Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900
Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The time has come to integrate both perspectives, and to reassess the importance of language norms, standardization and prescription on the basis of sound …
Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900
Chaos and standards
This paper discusses metalinguistic discourse and orthographical practice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the southern Netherlands ('Flanders'). Whereas a lot is known about Dutch language standardization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, what happened after that, especially in the southern territories, is still partly uncharted territory. This contribution will examine and challenge the myths of language decline and…
Convergence or divergence? A computer-assisted analysis of how Chinese state-sponsored and market-oriented newspapers discursively construct the newsworthiness of the Kunming terrorist attack
Language Maintenance and Shift in Highly Multilingual Ecologies
Brussels is an officially French-Dutch bilingual city, yet in reality, it is profoundly and increasingly multilingual. Earlier research on the linguistic situation in Brussels has predominantly focused on the competing dominant languages, resulting in very limited scholarly attention to smaller language communities. This paper addresses this blind spot by exploring the language repertoires, proficiencies and practices of members of the Chinese co…
Dialect, language, nation
Over 50 years ago, the Norwegian-American linguist Einar Haugen published a seminal paper entitled ‘Dialect, language and nation’ (Am Anthropol 68:922–935, 1966b), in which he expounds his four-step model of standardization, explaining the development from dialect to standard following a process of norm selection, codification, acceptance and elaboration. In this article, we start by discussing the life and work of Einar Haugen, situating him wit…
Chaos and standards
This paper discusses metalinguistic discourse and orthographical practice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the southern Netherlands ('Flanders'). Whereas a lot is known about Dutch language standardization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, what happened after that, especially in the southern territories, is still partly uncharted territory. This contribution will examine and challenge the myths of language decline and…
Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900
Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The time has come to integrate both perspectives, and to reassess the importance of language norms, standardization and prescription on the basis of sound …
Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900
Historical sociolinguistics
This article introduces the new Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics by situating it in the developing field of historical sociolinguistics. The landmark paper of Weinreich et al. (1968), which paid increased attention to extralinguistic factors in the explanation of language variation and change, served as an important basis for the gradual development and expansion of historical sociolinguistics as a separate (sub)field of inquiry, notably si…
Language ideological debates over orthography in European linguistic history
This introductory article to the special issue on the historical sociolinguistics of spelling sketches an overview of the current interest in the field for the sociopolitical nature of the written language. Spelling is understood as a powerful tool for sociopolitical mobilization and thus becomes a recurrent source of conflict. Orthographic debates are the object of study chosen by the authors in this special issue to analyze the non-linguistic d…
Three Southern shibboleths
Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a distinct Southern Dutch linguistic identity emerged in the region now known as Flanders, and spelling features are at the heart of this developing linguistic autonomy. By analyzing eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century normative and metalinguistic comments about three highly salient spelling variables (the spelling of the long vowels a and u in closed syllables, the ending 〈-n〉 or 〈-ø〉 in mascu…
Unraveling multilingualism in times past
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
Dialect, language, nation
Over 50 years ago, the Norwegian-American linguist Einar Haugen published a seminal paper entitled ‘Dialect, language and nation’ (Am Anthropol 68:922–935, 1966b), in which he expounds his four-step model of standardization, explaining the development from dialect to standard following a process of norm selection, codification, acceptance and elaboration. In this article, we start by discussing the life and work of Einar Haugen, situating him wit…
Language Standardization ‘from Above’
Language standardization 'from above' occurs in situations in which language authorities seek to disseminate a standardized variety across a speech and writing community. Hence, the crucial aspect of language standardization 'from above' is implementation, in Haugen's terminology. In the history of many European languages, standardization 'from above' is a Late Modern phenomenon, closely tied to the rise of standard language ideology in the eight…
Convergence or divergence? A computer-assisted analysis of how Chinese state-sponsored and market-oriented newspapers discursively construct the newsworthiness of the Kunming terrorist attack
Language Maintenance and Shift in Highly Multilingual Ecologies
Brussels is an officially French-Dutch bilingual city, yet in reality, it is profoundly and increasingly multilingual. Earlier research on the linguistic situation in Brussels has predominantly focused on the competing dominant languages, resulting in very limited scholarly attention to smaller language communities. This paper addresses this blind spot by exploring the language repertoires, proficiencies and practices of members of the Chinese co…
Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective
In this chapter, Dutch prescriptivism is approached from a historical-sociolinguistic perspective. We first situate prescriptivism in the context in which it arose and explain how metalinguistic commentary became more institutionalized over time. We furthermore illustrate how the social embedding of language change, on the one hand, and the chronology of language change, on the other, are important factors to consider when measuring the impact of…
When Socialism Meets Terrorism
Terrorist attacks, as a particular type of negative social event, are a potential threat to the establishment of a "Socialist Harmonious Society" advocated by the Chinese government. To shed light on how Chinese journalists construct reports on terrorist attacks and, more broadly, how non-Western countries report on negative social issues, we compared newspaper coverage of one domestic attack with four international incidents. Starting from Bedna…
Heritage Spanish in Brussels
This exploratory study investigates the evolution of coda /s/ weakening in Andalusian Spanish as a heritage language spoken in Brussels. Ongoing change promoted by dialect contact with other Spanish varieties was assessed on speech data retrieved via interviews with first- and second-generation Andalusian immigrants in the city. Their coda /s/ production was analyzed in terms of perceptual categorization, acoustic evidence of frication, and durat…
Spanish as Immigrant Minority Language in Brussels
Despite its demographic relevance, Spanish as an Immigrant Minority Language (IML) remains understudied in Europe. In Brussels, approximately 46,500 residents have Hispanic heritage, but their linguistic practices have largely remained unexplored in sociolinguistic research. This paper presents a pilot study on the language practices of the Hispanic communities in the city in order to assess language maintenance and vitality. Through an online su…
Chronicles of change and layered transformation
Using a qualitatively historicized and contextualized approach to componential elements of the semiotic landscape of urban neighborhoods, this article analyzes the changes and transformations discernible over time in the outward appearance of the Chinatown area in Antwerp and Brussels. Building on Massey’s (1984) metaphor of the geological landscape and Lai’s (1988) model of the historical development of Chinatowns, we specifically examine how so…
Born and buried
A growing body of research in language, discourse, and social sciences shows that criminal records, like other institutional documents, are rooted in bureaucratic routines, reflecting the perspectives of record makers rather than objective, all-encompassing facts. During criminal proceedings, various law functionaries collect information to match real-life events with legal definitions—a process known as “institutional categorization.” This paper…
Linguistics (13 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · History (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)