Frank Van Meurs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 137225 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Frank Van Meurs |
| PRENOMES | Frank |
| SOBRENOME | Van Meurs |
| ASSINATURA | VAN MEURS F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2099-4781 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Foreign Advantage, Regional Stigma? A Multivariate Analysis of Selected Dutch Regional and Foreign-Accented Speakers in Hiring Evaluations
Although many studies have shown accent bias in hiring contexts, the mechanisms underlying different types of accent bias remain underexplored. This study investigated how accent type (operationalized through selected foreign and regional accents) and accent strength (slight vs. strong) jointly influence social evaluations of speakers. In a verbal guise experiment, Dutch participants ( N = 458) rated job applicants speaking Dutch with slight or s…
Reducing the impact of foreign accentedness in English Medium Instruction
Foreign-accented teachers have been shown to trigger negative evaluations by students. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether this form of accent discrimination can be prevented or reduced by raising listeners’ awareness of the undesirability of accent discrimination. In a 2 × 3 between-subject verbal-guise design, 816 (Dutch, international, L1 English) listeners evaluated lecture fragments recorded by Dutch or German speaker…
Foreign languages in advertising
Given the multilingual nature of global business, language influences international business (IB) in almost all areas. IB scholars have studied the complex influence of language with manifold theoretical lenses, but have not systematically integrated linguistic theories. Aiming to broaden IB’s theoretical repertoire, we draw on a field that has integrated a rich array of linguistic theories with business perspectives: research on foreign language…
First language as a determinant of implicit and explicit language attitudes
This study aims to contribute new insight into the study of languages in contact by comparing the implicit and explicit general language attitudes of bilingual individuals towards their first and second language in health communication in a multilingual society, through a combination of survey and experimental methods. We investigated to what extent 358 L1 Catalan and 338 L1 Spanish speakers in Catalonia differed in their general attitudes to Cat…
The effects of L1 and L2 writers' varying politeness modification in English emails on L1 and L2 readers
n Contains fulltext :\n 287239.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Linguistic repercussions of Covid-19
The global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing localized policy reactions provides a case to uncover how a global crisis translates into linguistic discourse. Based on the JSI Timestamped Web Corpora that are automatically POS-tagged and accessible via SketchEngine, this study compares French, German, Dutch, and English. After identifying the main names used to denote the virus and its disease, we extracted a total of 1,697 associated …
Dutch students’ evaluations of EMI and L1MOI lectures
In a within-subjects experiment, 119 Dutch listeners evaluated authentic English and Dutch lecture fragments recorded by the same Dutch lecturer. For each fragment, they answered multiple-choice comprehension questions and rated the lecturer on comprehensibility, attitudinal measures (status, competence, likeability and dynamism), and perceived teaching quality. Findings showed that actual comprehension was not different for the English and the D…
Attitudes to regional and standard accents in commercial and non-commercial contexts
Dutch listeners’ evaluations of degrees of German-accented Dutch
The effect of non-native accented speech on speaker and message evaluations is well-researched for English, but accent-induced effects in languages other than English have been underexplored. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of a weak and strong German accent in Netherlandic Dutch on Dutch listeners’ perceptions of and attitudes towards the speaker and the message (in terms of, for instance, comprehensibility, persua…
A reconsideration of the status of English in the Netherlands within the Kachruvian Three Circles model
The English used in the Netherlands, a European Union country, is classified by many linguists as an ESL variety, or, within Kachru's (1985) Three Circles model, as an Outer Circle variety, or as being between an Outer and an Expanding Circle variety. This paper investigates the status of English in the Netherlands through a systematic application of the six criteria used by Kachru (1985) to classify the position of English in a country. The stud…
The effects of degrees of D utch accentedness in ELF and in F rench, G erman and S panish
In a verbal guise experiment, 178 listeners with three nationalities (58 F rench, 59 G erman and 61 S panish) listened to samples recorded by female speakers with three degrees of accentedness (strong/slight accented‐ D utch and native) in E nglish, F rench, G erman and S panish. Findings indicate that a strong accent had a detrimental effect on understanding and attitudinal evaluations, while a slight accent hardly led to negative effects. A spe…
Does a Foreign Accent Sell? The Effect of Foreign Accents in Radio Commercials for Congruent and Non-Congruent Products
Commercials regularly feature foreign accents. This paper aims to investigate whether the use of foreign accents in radio commercials is more effective for congruent than incongruent products, and whether foreign-accented commercials are evaluated differently than non-accented commercials. In an experiment, a group of 228 Dutch participants rated non-accented and accented commercials for four different products in a between-subject design. The pr…
An Empirical Study of Readers' Associations with Multilingual Advertising
In multilingual advertising, a foreign language is often used for symbolic purposes. In non-French-speaking countries, for instance, French is said to be associated with charm and style. The assumption is that the associations carried by the foreign language are transferred to the product that is advertised. A product advertised using French would thus also be seen as charming and stylish. Although a number of suggestions have been made as to the…
English in product advertisements in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain
This paper reports on a quantitative investigation into the occurrence of English in product advertisements in Dutch-speaking Belgium, French-speaking Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. For each country six issues of Elle in 2004 were collected and all ads of half a page or larger were analyzed, for a total of 2,384 different ads. More than two-thirds of those ads contained one or more English words. The actual occurrence of Eng…
The effect of English job titles in job advertisements on Dutch respondents
This paper reports on a study that tested the effect on Dutch respondents of using English in job titles. One half of the respondents evaluated five English job titles, and the other half evaluated the equivalent Dutch job titles. The results of the experiment support claims about the effect of English in job titles in the Netherlands and other non-English-speaking countries which had not previously been tested experimentally. In those cases wher…
English in product advertisements in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain
This paper reports on a quantitative investigation into the occurrence of English in product advertisements in Dutch-speaking Belgium, French-speaking Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. For each country six issues of Elle in 2004 were collected and all ads of half a page or larger were analyzed, for a total of 2,384 different ads. More than two-thirds of those ads contained one or more English words. The actual occurrence of Eng…
A reconsideration of the status of English in the Netherlands within the Kachruvian Three Circles model
The English used in the Netherlands, a European Union country, is classified by many linguists as an ESL variety, or, within Kachru's (1985) Three Circles model, as an Outer Circle variety, or as being between an Outer and an Expanding Circle variety. This paper investigates the status of English in the Netherlands through a systematic application of the six criteria used by Kachru (1985) to classify the position of English in a country. The stud…
Does a Foreign Accent Sell? The Effect of Foreign Accents in Radio Commercials for Congruent and Non-Congruent Products
Commercials regularly feature foreign accents. This paper aims to investigate whether the use of foreign accents in radio commercials is more effective for congruent than incongruent products, and whether foreign-accented commercials are evaluated differently than non-accented commercials. In an experiment, a group of 228 Dutch participants rated non-accented and accented commercials for four different products in a between-subject design. The pr…
The effects of L1 and L2 writers' varying politeness modification in English emails on L1 and L2 readers
n Contains fulltext :\n 287239.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The effects of degrees of D utch accentedness in ELF and in F rench, G erman and S panish
In a verbal guise experiment, 178 listeners with three nationalities (58 F rench, 59 G erman and 61 S panish) listened to samples recorded by female speakers with three degrees of accentedness (strong/slight accented‐ D utch and native) in E nglish, F rench, G erman and S panish. Findings indicate that a strong accent had a detrimental effect on understanding and attitudinal evaluations, while a slight accent hardly led to negative effects. A spe…
The effect of English job titles in job advertisements on Dutch respondents
This paper reports on a study that tested the effect on Dutch respondents of using English in job titles. One half of the respondents evaluated five English job titles, and the other half evaluated the equivalent Dutch job titles. The results of the experiment support claims about the effect of English in job titles in the Netherlands and other non-English-speaking countries which had not previously been tested experimentally. In those cases wher…
An Empirical Study of Readers' Associations with Multilingual Advertising
In multilingual advertising, a foreign language is often used for symbolic purposes. In non-French-speaking countries, for instance, French is said to be associated with charm and style. The assumption is that the associations carried by the foreign language are transferred to the product that is advertised. A product advertised using French would thus also be seen as charming and stylish. Although a number of suggestions have been made as to the…
An Empirical Study of Readers' Associations with Multilingual Advertising
In multilingual advertising, a foreign language is often used for symbolic purposes. In non-French-speaking countries, for instance, French is said to be associated with charm and style. The assumption is that the associations carried by the foreign language are transferred to the product that is advertised. A product advertised using French would thus also be seen as charming and stylish. Although a number of suggestions have been made as to the…
English in product advertisements in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain
This paper reports on a quantitative investigation into the occurrence of English in product advertisements in Dutch-speaking Belgium, French-speaking Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. For each country six issues of Elle in 2004 were collected and all ads of half a page or larger were analyzed, for a total of 2,384 different ads. More than two-thirds of those ads contained one or more English words. The actual occurrence of Eng…
The effect of English job titles in job advertisements on Dutch respondents
This paper reports on a study that tested the effect on Dutch respondents of using English in job titles. One half of the respondents evaluated five English job titles, and the other half evaluated the equivalent Dutch job titles. The results of the experiment support claims about the effect of English in job titles in the Netherlands and other non-English-speaking countries which had not previously been tested experimentally. In those cases wher…
The effects of degrees of D utch accentedness in ELF and in F rench, G erman and S panish
In a verbal guise experiment, 178 listeners with three nationalities (58 F rench, 59 G erman and 61 S panish) listened to samples recorded by female speakers with three degrees of accentedness (strong/slight accented‐ D utch and native) in E nglish, F rench, G erman and S panish. Findings indicate that a strong accent had a detrimental effect on understanding and attitudinal evaluations, while a slight accent hardly led to negative effects. A spe…
Does a Foreign Accent Sell? The Effect of Foreign Accents in Radio Commercials for Congruent and Non-Congruent Products
Commercials regularly feature foreign accents. This paper aims to investigate whether the use of foreign accents in radio commercials is more effective for congruent than incongruent products, and whether foreign-accented commercials are evaluated differently than non-accented commercials. In an experiment, a group of 228 Dutch participants rated non-accented and accented commercials for four different products in a between-subject design. The pr…
A reconsideration of the status of English in the Netherlands within the Kachruvian Three Circles model
The English used in the Netherlands, a European Union country, is classified by many linguists as an ESL variety, or, within Kachru's (1985) Three Circles model, as an Outer Circle variety, or as being between an Outer and an Expanding Circle variety. This paper investigates the status of English in the Netherlands through a systematic application of the six criteria used by Kachru (1985) to classify the position of English in a country. The stud…
Dutch listeners’ evaluations of degrees of German-accented Dutch
The effect of non-native accented speech on speaker and message evaluations is well-researched for English, but accent-induced effects in languages other than English have been underexplored. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of a weak and strong German accent in Netherlandic Dutch on Dutch listeners’ perceptions of and attitudes towards the speaker and the message (in terms of, for instance, comprehensibility, persua…
Linguistic repercussions of Covid-19
The global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing localized policy reactions provides a case to uncover how a global crisis translates into linguistic discourse. Based on the JSI Timestamped Web Corpora that are automatically POS-tagged and accessible via SketchEngine, this study compares French, German, Dutch, and English. After identifying the main names used to denote the virus and its disease, we extracted a total of 1,697 associated …
Dutch students’ evaluations of EMI and L1MOI lectures
In a within-subjects experiment, 119 Dutch listeners evaluated authentic English and Dutch lecture fragments recorded by the same Dutch lecturer. For each fragment, they answered multiple-choice comprehension questions and rated the lecturer on comprehensibility, attitudinal measures (status, competence, likeability and dynamism), and perceived teaching quality. Findings showed that actual comprehension was not different for the English and the D…
Attitudes to regional and standard accents in commercial and non-commercial contexts
First language as a determinant of implicit and explicit language attitudes
This study aims to contribute new insight into the study of languages in contact by comparing the implicit and explicit general language attitudes of bilingual individuals towards their first and second language in health communication in a multilingual society, through a combination of survey and experimental methods. We investigated to what extent 358 L1 Catalan and 338 L1 Spanish speakers in Catalonia differed in their general attitudes to Cat…
The effects of L1 and L2 writers' varying politeness modification in English emails on L1 and L2 readers
n Contains fulltext :\n 287239.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Foreign languages in advertising
Given the multilingual nature of global business, language influences international business (IB) in almost all areas. IB scholars have studied the complex influence of language with manifold theoretical lenses, but have not systematically integrated linguistic theories. Aiming to broaden IB’s theoretical repertoire, we draw on a field that has integrated a rich array of linguistic theories with business perspectives: research on foreign language…
Reducing the impact of foreign accentedness in English Medium Instruction
Foreign-accented teachers have been shown to trigger negative evaluations by students. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether this form of accent discrimination can be prevented or reduced by raising listeners’ awareness of the undesirability of accent discrimination. In a 2 × 3 between-subject verbal-guise design, 816 (Dutch, international, L1 English) listeners evaluated lecture fragments recorded by Dutch or German speaker…
Foreign Advantage, Regional Stigma? A Multivariate Analysis of Selected Dutch Regional and Foreign-Accented Speakers in Hiring Evaluations
Although many studies have shown accent bias in hiring contexts, the mechanisms underlying different types of accent bias remain underexplored. This study investigated how accent type (operationalized through selected foreign and regional accents) and accent strength (slight vs. strong) jointly influence social evaluations of speakers. In a verbal guise experiment, Dutch participants ( N = 458) rated job applicants speaking Dutch with slight or s…
Linguistics (13 obras) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Mathematics (6 obras) · German (5 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Advertising (4 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)