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2. Papers from the Dutch-German Colloquium on Language Acquisition
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Verrips, M., Wijnen, A, and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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- 1995
3. De ervaringen van jonge statushouders met de schoolsluiting vanwege COVID-19
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SDG 16 - Peace ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,SDG 4 - Quality Education ,Justice and Strong Institutions - Abstract
This paper focusses on the experiences of Syrian refugee youth in Rotterdam with the first school closure (spring 2020), due to COVID-19 policy measures. Based on repeated qualitative interviews with 19 boys and girls – before, during and after the school closure – we examine how Syrian refugee youth have experienced the school closure, and how this influence their educational position by using the four central tasks of education of Van de Werfhorst and Mijs (2010). Syrian refugee youth in our study emphasize that online education is more difficult to understand and stress they miss their friends at school. Moreover, their circumstances at home are not ideal for online learning, and therefore reaching the appropriate level of education becomes harder. This paper highlights the importance of the social aspect of education. Whereas going to school normally also stimulate friendships and their socialization in Dutch society, the school closure makes this more challenging. Especially for refugee youth school has extra relevance for reasons of e.g. mental health, resiliency, and socialization. Through our case studies, we argue that the school closure contributes to an accumulation of risks and inequalities. We conclude that the school closure will likely increase educational inequality for young people with a refugee background and makes their educational position more vulnerable.
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- 2021
4. Dialect contact and the speed of Jespersen’s cycle in Middle Low German
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Anne Breitbarth
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Jespersen’s cycle ,Middle Low German ,dialect contact ,contact-induced change ,Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages ,PD1-7159 - Abstract
The present paper adds empirical evidence to the observation that dialect contact can lead to language change, and in particular, structural simplification. Empirically, the paper maps out the differences in the speed of the transition from stage II to stage III in different Middle Low German scribal dialects (Schreibsprachen) and proposes an account for these differences.
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- 2014
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5. Conservative and innovative dialect areas
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Christian Schwarz
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dialect areas ,conservative ,dialect change ,variation ,phonology ,phonological change ,convergence ,Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages ,PD1-7159 - Abstract
The present paper focuses on conservative and innovative (transitional) dialect areas and the questions of 1) how such areas can be methodologically visualized and 2) how the outcomes can be interpreted. In the first part of this paper a geostatistical method of representing phonological features in space will be introduced: interpolation. This method is not entirely new to dialectology; it has been quite neglected, though, in comparison to other methods of mapping, such as the isogloss or dot symbol method that was mainly used in traditional dialect atlases. The interpolation method will be applied to a large corpus of spontaneous speech data from rural dialects spoken in southwest Germany. Methodological steps in data processing will be described, resulting in a data set that can be used as input for statistical analysis and the visual depiction of variation in space as interpolated grid plots. In the second part results will be discussed. The major outcome consists of an aggregate interpolation plot that includes variables from fifteen different etymological sound classes. These sound classes can be used for demonstrating the distribution of receding phonological variables in space. The interpolation shows two conservative areas where receding forms are still widespread. They lie within the centers of the two major dialect groups of southwest Germany: Alemannic and Swabian. The conservative areas are separated by a broad transitional zone characterized by intense variation between receding and innovative variants. It will be argued that this transitional zone is not due to the horizontal spread of the dialects into each other’s areas alone. Rather, variation is triggered by vertical standard influence that supports any dialect form to spread out horizontally as long as it is phonologically identical or similar to the standard form.
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- 2014
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6. Chapter Luchtalarm! Gas!
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Breukers, Jos
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gas mask, people’s mask, air attack, air raid precautions services, poison gas, mustard gas ,thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDN Netherlands ,thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACD Dutch ,thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues - Abstract
Since poison gas was used during World War I, long-range bombers had been introduced and tensions were rising in Europe, the Air Raid Precautions Act was passed in the Netherlands in 1936. The legislation emphasised individual responsibility for self-protection. This meant that citizens had to buy a gas mask themselves. The Gas Mask Decree (1937) required all gas mask models for Civil Defence units and civilians to be approved by the Dutch State Arsenal. Facepieces and filter canisters had to be marked with the State Acceptance Number and year(s) of approval and production. This paper identifies and describes the gas masks used by police, fire brigades, Civil Defence units and individual citizens, 1931-1940. Three models are heavy, regular Army box respirators, whose filter containers are worn in a haversack on the chest. All the other models are lighter civilian gas masks, with an easily replaceable screw-on filter canister attached to the facepiece. The gas masks were carried in a basic satchel or cylindrical metal case. Two Dutch-made gas masks have a peculiar design: the Veritex gas mask’s facepiece has a swimcap type hood; the Hevea-Electro Model 128 gas mask’s facepiece has no outlet valve. Air is inhaled and exhaled through the filter canister.
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- 2024
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7. De detectie van saillante taalkenmerken : een pleidooi voor een multimethodologische benadering
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Anne-Sophie Ghyselen and Pieternelle Vandekerckhove
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Perceptual dialectology ,Empirical data ,Salience (language) ,circularity ,media_common.quotation_subject ,dialect imitation ,ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION ,salience ,Cognition ,perception ,Languages and Literatures ,Interview data ,perceptual dialectology ,Salient ,Perception ,Psychology ,Cognitive psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Detecting salient features: in defence of a multidimensional approach This paper addresses the question how salience, i.e. the perceptual and cognitive prominence of language features (Kerswill & Williams 2002: 63), can be studied and explained. Within language change studies, the concept of salience is often called upon to explain why certain language features are more prone to change than others, but empirical data to substantiate claims of salience are often lacking or non-convincing. In this paper, an overview is offered of ways in which salience can be studied empirically, building on the insights of recent perceptual dialectological research. It will be argued that a combination of techniques should be strived at, as this allows to combine the strengths of each approach. Subsequently, by offering an overview of existing hypotheses, the question will be addressed how salience can be explained. The formulated insights will be illustrated and tested by means of a multimethodological salience experiment conducted in Flanders. This case study clearly shows (1) the advantage of an approach combining dialect imitation data and several types of interview data and (2) that salience is influenced by a variety of factors, such as the linguistic background of the listener and the context in which the feature occurs.
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- 2017
8. De auteur en beeldende kunstenaar Armando in de jaren 1954-1960: de beginjaren van een multitalent
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G.J.M. Favi and Literature
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Linguistics and Language ,Painting ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Poetry ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Art history ,Art ,Language and Linguistics ,Sketch ,Criticism ,Performance art ,Relation (history of concept) ,Composition (language) ,media_common - Abstract
In this paper, an attempt is made to sketch the first years of the artistic career of the Dutch writer and painter Armando (1929) in relation to the scrapbooks he made himself from 1954 to 1973. In addition to an introduction to the themes and works of this multi-talented artist, the paper confirms that the scrapbooks, especially the first that was made in 1954-1960, illustrate the image of an aggressive and provocative Armando. Frustration about negative criticism of his poems has lead to aggression and bolstering this attitude in the composition of the scrapbook.
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- 2011
9. Länderschwerpunkt Niederlande
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Paweł Zajas
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Suhrkamp Verlag ,Siegfried Unseld ,Foundation for the Promotion of the Translation of Dutch Literary Works ,literary transfer ,literary archives ,publishing fields ,German literature ,PT1-4897 ,Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages ,PD1-7159 - Abstract
Länderschwerpunkt Niederlande: The Siegfried Unseld Archives and Dutchliterature In 2009 Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach (DLA) acquired the Siegfried Unseld Archives (SUA). SUA covers the period from 1945-2002 and includes material from the publishing houses such as Suhrkamp Verlag, Insel Verlag, Jüdischer Verlag and Deutscher Klassiker Verlag. The archive constitutes an important resource not only for the historians of literature and science, but also for the sociologists of literature dealing with literary translation. Scholars interested in Dutch literature will also find a wealth of research data in the archive. Suhrkamp Verlag, next to the publishers such as Hanser and Klett- Cotta, played a very important part in shaping the reception of Dutch literature in Germany. The paper discusses three stages in the production of literary translations in Suhrkamp Verlag between 1957-1990, focusing in particular on the selection procedure and the participation of the individual actors of the transfer.
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- 2016
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10. Omnis determinatio est negatio
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Maria Kardaun, Literature & Art, RS: FASoS AMC, and RS: FASoS OSL
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Axial age ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Philosophy ,mythology ,Rationalism ,domain of meaningfulness ,Axial Age ,State of affairs ,General Medicine ,ethics ,Epistemology ,Value theory ,domain of truth ,Nothing ,religion ,Justice (virtue) ,Western philosophy ,Praise ,rationalism ,media_common ,Platonic art theory - Abstract
Omnis Determinatio est Negatio. On Habermas, Myth, and Truth With his monumental genealogy of Western philosophy Jurgen Habermas delivers an achievement that is worthy of great praise. In carefully constructed arguments he presents in detail the close connection between, and the mutual indebtedness of, religion and philosophy as they developed in the West for more than two millennia. With regard to the current state of affairs he acknowledges that we should continue to engage with subjects such as purpose, meaningfulness, and how to behave. He proposes that where religion is withdrawing, philosophy should take its place. In spite of its great merits, there are some fundamental shortcomings in the overall image Habermas wishes to convey. By suggesting that Western religion and philosophy have been the major driving forces not only of cognitive but also of ethical progress, he underestimates the moral value of pre-Socratic and other holistic world views that radically differ from the idiosyncratic Western one. For example, he perceives Homer’s mythological thinking as nothing but a primitive state of mind against which the ethical and intellectual progress of later developments could come to the fore. This paper proposes that we should give much more weight to the difference between the ‘cognitive’ and the ‘ethical’ than Habermas does. In principle, as a form of argumentative reasoning, philosophy belongs to the (cognitive) domain of truth. As such, it is not a suitable successor to religion. On the other hand, provided they operate primarily within their own domain – which is the domain of meaningfulness –, religion (in whatever form), literature and the arts, ancient myth, friendship, love, and humour may still be best equipped to sharpen our sense of justice and help us deal with feelings of moral disorientation and fragmentation.
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- 2021
11. De ideologische positie van Algemeen Nederlands in Vlaanderen
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Chloé Lybaert
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standard language ideology ,perceptions ,Flanders ,tussentaal ,Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages ,PD1-7159 - Abstract
The ideological position of Standard Dutch in Flanders: the standard language ideology under pressure? In this paper, the results of a perception study in Flanders are reported. 80 informants were subjected to a qualitative interview, to gain insight in the way Flemish language users judge on the situational appropriacy of several Dutch language varieties. The reported beliefs of the informants were compared to language ideological frameworks and they show an evolution in the standard language ideology (Milroy & Milroy, 1985), an ideology in which the standard language is considered to be the ideal and to be the only appropriate variety for formal and public situations. The informants still consider the standard language to be important and to be superior, but the variety according to them is not necessary for formal and public situations. Instead Tussentaal, lit. ‘in-between language’, has gained a position in the situational spectre.
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- 2015
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12. De impact van de coronacrisis op het subjectief welbevinden van (internationale) studenten in Nederland
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Subjective well-being ,International students ,COVID-19 ,Higher education ,The Netherlands - Abstract
In this paper we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective well-being of higher education students in the Netherlands. More specifically, we compare international students and Dutch students, based on the Dutch data of the COVID-19 International Student Well-Being Study, a cross-sectional survey conducted between May-July 2020 among higher education students across the Netherlands (N = 10.491). Based on the sociological literature on the relationship between social capital and subjective well-being, we investigate in particular whether changes in social contact during the first lockdown can explain differences in subjective well-being between international and Dutch students. Our results suggest that although international students report lower levels of subjective well-being compared to Dutch students, these differences cannot be directly explained by (changes) in social contact during the lockdown.
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- 2021
13. Implicational scaling in child language acquisition: the order of production of Dutch verb constructions
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Bol, G.W., Verrips, M, and Wijnen, A
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- 1995
14. Acquiring a negative polarity verb
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Koster, E.A., Verrips, M, and Wijnen, A
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- 1995
15. Focus op functies (Volume 71.0)
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Raad voor het Regeringsbele, Wetenschappelijke
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Social Science ,Performing Arts ,Political Science - Abstract
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector of media, namely public broadcasting via radio and television. The narrow approach results in a lot of paper, speeches and theories, but little in the way of definitive policy making. In a report to the government, published in February 2005, the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) argued for very different approaches to policy making. The recommendations are not only much broader than "broadcasting"; they tackle the challenges of making robust policy from new angles. Instead of trying to repair the old compass, the approach has been to find new instruments to help policymakers navigate the stormy and often confusing waters ahead. Perhaps the problem in the Netherlands is not accepting the new media, but rather accepting that the role "old" media has undergone a paradigm shift. Since the bulk of the WRR findings were published in the Dutch language, this summary is intended to provide readers outside the Netherlands with an insight into the issues at stake - and the solutions suggested by the WRR. Also available in English: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789053568262&l=2">Media Policy for the Digital Age
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- 2005
16. Een G1000 gun je iedereen
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SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities - Abstract
A G1000 is meant for everybody: Participation in Kruiskamp, Amersfoort, theNetherlandsIn the Netherlands, citizens’ summits are employed to provide citizens aspace within the present democratic system. By using a micro lens to studyprocesses at a G1000 in a neighbourhood in the Dutch city of Amersfoort, wehave gained insights into the course of the programme of the summit. Weanalysed how deliberation, group dynamics and (differing) mind-sets affectcommunication, the creation of a common ground, and the activation ofcitizens. We found that a safe space is required to enable participants tothink out of the box during deliberation. Facilitation by skilled moderators aswell as transparency during the program are seen as preconditions for apowerful operation. We also found that interference by representatives ofthe system world – like (local) government officials – can disturb the groupprocess based on everyday life principles. Finally, this paper shows thatdiversity among participants is not easily reached, if at all. While the aim is towelcome everyone, there are some implicit values that especially attract thewhite middleclass. This makes inclusivity of different social classes, ethnicbackgrounds, religions, and age a challenge that is still difficult to accomplish.
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- 2017
17. Sophie de Grouchy, de traditie (s) van de twee vrijheden en de missende moeder (s) van het liberalisme
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In this paper, I treat Sophie de Grouchy as an important contributor to liberal reflection on the famous distinction between two kinds of liberty. I place her in the intellectual context of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and show it is likely that Benjamin Constant was familiar with her work. Along the way, by engaging with Isaiah Berlin and with Jason Stanley and Vesla Weaver, I make some suggestions on the nature of an intellectual tradition worth having.
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- 2017
18. Oh (/o/) als ontvanger van informatie in sociale interactie
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Lucas M. Seuren
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Interjection ,Cognition ,Psychology ,Presupposition ,Linguistics - Abstract
Recently there has been an increased interest cross-linguistically in how speakers use interjections in everyday interaction. A particularly productive line of inquiry deals with what are known as change-of-state tokens, interjections with which speakers claim that there has been a shift in their cognitive state such as their knowledge, understanding, attention, etc. In this paper I explore the variability of the Dutch interjection oh /o/. Focusing on its use in response to informing turns, I argue that as a free-standing particle speakers use it to claim that the information in that prior turn was in some way unexpected: either because it contradicted what the speaker claimed he or she knew, or because it contradicted some presupposition that was encoded in an earlier question. I subsequently discuss the most frequent ways in which oh is combined with other turn components, showing how it is used to respond to announcements of valenced news, to do now-remembering, and to make claims of now-understanding. In closing I show that when oh prefaces additional turn components such as oke, each component deals with a different action-implication of the ongoing sequence and that oh is used to receive the information being conveyed.
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- 2019
19. De ongelijke stad
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Jeroen Slot, Sako Musterd, and Urban Geographies (UG, AISSR, FMG)
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Economic growth ,Spatial segregation ,Inequality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Socioeconomic inequality ,General Social Sciences ,Globe ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Spatial inequality ,Political science ,Development economics ,medicine ,Social inequality ,media_common - Abstract
Social (spatial) inequality appears to be increasing in many cities across the globe, and also in Europe and in the Netherlands. Formerly rather equal societies, such as Sweden and the Netherlands, are currently confronted with much higher levels of socioeconomic inequality, potentially also resulting in increasing spatial inequality. In this paper we address these dynamics, with a special focus on Europe and particularly on Amsterdam. We refer to a range of structural and institutional factors that help understand the processes towards higher levels of social spatial inequality, and also pay attention to the potential effects of the developments that have been described. It is concluded that many governments express an intention to reduce the levels of social spatial segregation. However, we gauge that few governments will actually intervene in the structural and institutional dynamics behind the processes described. Instead, a much more pragmatic type of policy may currently be the best to expect as an effort to stay away from the most negative impacts of increasing social spatial inequality.
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- 2016
20. Cross-Age friendships in 25 European countries [Vriendschappen tussen jong en oud in 25 Europese Landen]
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Cross-age friendships in 25 European countries This paper focuses on individual and country-level circumstances shaping friendships between young and old to gain insight into conditions for intergenerational solidarity. Using European Social Survey data, findings show that relatively few people have cross-age friendships (18% of the young and 31% of the old). As predicted by the ‘meeting principle’, individuals who operate in settings where there are opportunities for meaningful interactions with people belonging to a different age group are more likely to have cross-age friendships. As predicted by the ‘disposition principle’, individuals with more favourable feelings about other age groups are more likely to have cross-age friendships. Neither the Active Ageing Index nor macro-level trust and individualism show significant associations with the likelihood of having cross-age friendships. Apparently, conditions that bring generations together are meeting opportunities at the local level, underscoring the importance of decentralized initiatives aimed at increased contact and co-operation across age groups.
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- 2016
21. Toernooi en heraldiek: Wapenboeken als het schriftelijk geheugen van de laatmiddeleeuwse adel
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Damen, M., Hogenbirk, M., Kuitert, L., and ASH (FGw)
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This paper analyses two late sixteenth-century armorials with the coats of arms of the 235 participants of a tournament, organized in May 1439 on the central market square, the Grote Markt, of Brussels. The armorials, trustworthy copies of a now lost original, recorded the performance of an exclusive social category in public space, and express in a distinctive visual way the internal hierarchy of the tourneying society: team leaders, leaders of large companies, leaders of of small companies, and 'ordinary' participants. The heraldic elements that were essential to this hierarchic arrangement - banners, pennons, shields – were actually used during the tournament, as well as the depicted helmets and crests. It goes without saying that these occasional rolls were important for the nobility of the Low Countries, both at the time of the tournament and at the time of their creation in the last decades of the sixteenth century. Inclusion of their coats of arms in the armorials ensured the participants of a place in the collective memory. The compilers of the armorials played an essential role in defining the nobility as a social category since participating in a tournament meant that you lived nobly and that your peers considered you as a nobleman. The two copies of the original armorial in the last decades of the sixteenth century reproduced the social classification within the nobility in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It shows that the same mechanisms of social distinction still played a role at that time.
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- 2017
22. Tournament and heraldry
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This paper analyses two late sixteenth-century armorials with the coats of arms of the 235 participants of a tournament, organized in May 1439 on the central market square, the Grote Markt, of Brussels. The armorials, trustworthy copies of a now lost original, recorded the performance of an exclusive social category in public space, and express in a distinctive visual way the internal hierarchy of the tourneying society: team leaders, leaders of large companies, leaders of of small companies, and 'ordinary' participants. The heraldic elements that were essential to this hierarchic arrangement - banners, pennons, shields – were actually used during the tournament, as well as the depicted helmets and crests. It goes without saying that these occasional rolls were important for the nobility of the Low Countries, both at the time of the tournament and at the time of their creation in the last decades of the sixteenth century. Inclusion of their coats of arms in the armorials ensured the participants of a place in the collective memory. The compilers of the armorials played an essential role in defining the nobility as a social category since participating in a tournament meant that you lived nobly and that your peers considered you as a nobleman. The two copies of the original armorial in the last decades of the sixteenth century reproduced the social classification within the nobility in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It shows that the same mechanisms of social distinction still played a role at that time.
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- 2017
23. Reuze bedankt, het was echt top! Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar 'loskoppeling' van samenstellingscomponenten
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Kristel Van Goethem, UCL - SSH/ILC/PLIN - Pôle de recherche en linguistique, and UCL - SSH/ILC - Institut Langage et Communication
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Linguistics and Language ,Linguistic context ,Engineering ,linguistique comparative ,Literature and Literary Theory ,business.industry ,Communication ,Language and Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Bound morpheme ,Linguistics ,German ,Cohesion (linguistics) ,composition ,Inflection ,language ,dégrammaticalisation ,debonding ,affixoïde ,business ,Adjective ,Adverbial - Abstract
By means of a comparative corpus study, this paper investigates the rise of new adjectives and adverbs from nominal compound members through a process of ‘debonding’. This is ‘a composite change whereby a bound morpheme in a specific linguistic context becomes a free morpheme’ (Norde 2009, p. 186). It can be illustrated by the adjectival and adverbial uses of the Dutch compound member reuze (een reuzenstap; reuzeleuk; het was reuze; het is reuze meegevallen). It will be argued that debonding is subject to a series of language-specific factors, in particular the degree of compound cohesion and the complexity of adjective inflection. These factors predict that debonding will be more common in French and English than in German and Dutch. However, debonding still occurs in the latter. This can be accounted for by an interaction of multiple processes. Finally, a specific case study of the Dutch word top will indicate how and which different processes interact in the rise of its adjectival uses.
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- 2014
24. Trends en lotgevallen. Mens en Maatschappij in de afgelopen vijfentwintig jaar
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Mens & Maatschappij¿ is not only the oldest social science journal in the Netherlands (birth date 1925), but also one of the oldest in the world. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Swanborn (1975) published the results of a content analysis of the volumes of M&M in the period 1925-1974. This article, on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, is a follow up of his research covering the next twenty-five years. The most important trends in the period 1975-1999 were: (1) a decline of the number of (very) long articles; (2) a strong shift from articles concerned with programmatic and methodological issues towards problem-oriented papers; (3) a transition from a theoretical-reflective towards an empirical-theoretical tradition; (3) a continuing increase of sociological articles at the expense of articles from the other social and behavioural sciences; (4) a shift in the problem oriented articles from social inequality as the dominant key problem towards social cohesion; (5) a strong development away from articles based on the study of literature towards articles based on survey research.
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- 2000
25. Focus op functies
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Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbele
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culture and instituten ,public administration ,law ,economics ,bestuurskunde ,political science ,motion pictures ,film ,politicologie ,economie ,culture and institutions ,recht ,bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government ,bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management ,bic Book Industry Communication::L Law - Abstract
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector of media, namely public broadcasting via radio and television. The narrow approach results in a lot of paper, speeches and theories, but little in the way of definitive policy making. In a report to the government, published in February 2005, the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) argued for very different approaches to policy making. The recommendations are not only much broader than "broadcasting"; they tackle the challenges of making robust policy from new angles. Instead of trying to repair the old compass, the approach has been to find new instruments to help policymakers navigate the stormy and often confusing waters ahead. Perhaps the problem in the Netherlands is not accepting the new media, but rather accepting that the role "old" media has undergone a paradigm shift. Since the bulk of the WRR findings were published in the Dutch language, this summary is intended to provide readers outside the Netherlands with an insight into the issues at stake - and the solutions suggested by the WRR. Also available in English: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789053568262&l=2">Media Policy for the Digital Age, Voor een gezonde democratie is een gevarieerd en toegankelijk media-aanbod van groot belang. Radio, televisie, kranten en tijdschriften spelen immers een belangrijke rol in de maatschappelijke informatievoorziening, het publieke debat, de cultuur, de vrijetijdsbesteding en de ontspanning. Het mediabeleid van de regering is er daarom op gericht een veelzijdig, kwalitatief hoogwaardig en onafhankelijk media-aanbod te garanderen, dat toegankelijk is voor alle bevolkingsgroepen waar ook in het land. De laatste jaren is het medialandschap echter sterk aan het veranderen: het internet rukt op, het onderscheid tussen verschillende media vervaagt en de consument bepaalt zijn keuze op een levendige market van vele verschillende aanbieders. in Focus op functies brengt de WRR advies uit aan de regering om daarmee de doelstellingen van het mediabeleid op een toekomstbestendige wijze op een lijn te brengen met de (verwachte) veranderingen in het medialandschap. In het slothoofdstuk wordt dieper ingegaan op de rol van de publieke omroep daarin. Dit rapport verschijnt ook in het Engels: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789053568262&l=2">Media Policy for the Digital Age. Tegelijkertijd met het rapport is "./do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789053567340">Trends in het medialandschap. Vier verkenningen verschenen waarin de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen voor de toekomst van het medialandschap in vier deelterreinen (economie, techniek, recht en sociaal-culturele ontwikkelingen) worden beschreven.
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- 2005
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26. Climate Strategy : Between Ambition and Realism
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- 2007
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