sociolinguistics

Fertility Day Campaign II

Article
Addes Tesfamariam
13/10/2016
11 minutes to read

Preserving fertility revolves around good lifestyles and avoiding people with a diverse background. This is the message the Health Minister sends in Fertility Day campaign II. Read my diverse Italian perspective.

FertilityDay

Italy's fertility day campaign

Article
Addes Tesfamariam
10/10/2016
10 minutes to read

Fertility Day, the campaign to combat Italy's low birthrate, outraged the entire country. What made this campaign so controversial?

Fertility Day: a LGBT perspective

Article
Maria Cantiello
10/10/2016
4 minutes to read

The infamous campaign on the Fertility Day campaign, promoted by the Italian Minister of Health, was followed by strong reactions from different sides of Italian society. This article provides an analyses from the LGBT perspective.

Dialect als Kop van Jut

Article
Sjaak Kroon
03/10/2016
10 minutes to read

In de laatste septemberweken van 2016 meldden de media dat dialectsprekers minder verdienen dan sprekers van het Standaardnederlands. Waar komt dit “nieuws”vandaan? Waarom krijgt het zoveel aandacht? Hoe kunnen we het in breder perspectief zien?

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From mobility to complexity in sociolinguistic theory and method

Academic paper
Jan Blommaert
22/01/2016
29 minutes to read

A theoretical and methodological paradigm sift is underway in sociolinguistics, in which insights in the mobility of sociolinguistic phenomena leads to a complexity perspective with far-reaching effects.

Teaching the language that makes one happy

Teaching the language that makes one happy

Academic paper
Jan Blommaert
19/01/2016
5 minutes to read

Language teaching often assumes a generic "language" that needs to be acquired, while in actual fact, specific registers are learned and such registers enable "integration" into highly specific niches in social life.

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