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Document Details : Title: Verklaringen van substandaardisering Subtitle: Tussentaal als gesitueerd taalgebruik Author(s): JASPERS, Jürgen , BRISARD, Frank Journal: Leuvense Bijdragen - Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology Volume: 95 Date: 2006 Pages: 35-70 DOI: 10.2143/LB.95.0.2033181 Abstract : Current accounts of Dutch substandard language use or 'tussentaal' come in two varieties. Thus, we find systemic explanations that are mostly linguistic in nature and in which substandard language is considered part of a general and rule-governed process of standardization. Other, generally less academically presented explanations focus on the individual as a strategic language user embedded in a social context. Both types of explanation are not theoretically unproblematic, and each struggles particularly with integrating individual purposeful actions and systematic or normative routines in the analysis. The present article suggests that analysing 'tussentaal' as situated social praxis allows both individual and systematic aspects of language use to be seen as mutually constitutive (and not just complementary). This affects the epistemic status and locus of 'tussentaal' as a research object, and also has important methodological repercussions. |
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