Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing - Volume 44, Issue 1, 2022

Abstract In this special ‘Perspective’ issue, I would like to elaborate the consequences of my intercultural vision for the disciplines involved with the development of the domain of intercultural communication, especially the discipline of ‘Taalbeheersing’ as a subdiscipline of Dutch Studies and within the communication sciences – and to initiate a discussion about it. On the one hand, I would like to start the discussion on the role Read More

Abstract In the study of language-and-social-interaction we can distinguish 3 approaches to multilingualism. The first and most basic version is to make the language explicit in which the studied interaction phenomenon was found. The second is to do a comparative study of an interaction phenomenon in different languages. The third is to study data in which different languages are spoken. At this moment the third approa Read More

Abstract In this text I argue that the Dutch society sometimes seems to have lost the capacity to embrace multilingualism and language variation – and I explore what role education might play in this development. Hence, it might be that a strong prescriptive attitude towards language in primary schools, which manifests itself explicitly in instruction and feedback on spelling, is followed by an equally strict perspective on la Read More

Abstract In his inciting plea, Ten Thije calls for the rejection of the notion of ‘non-native speaker’. As a member of the group of researchers who subscribe to the term ‘non-nativeness in communication’, I cannot help but feel addressed. In my reaction, I shall discuss the concept of non-nativeness and innovation in language acquisition research, which is getting off the ground partly thanks to research that in the Netherla Read More

Abstract In addition to Ten Thije’s plea to study the Dutch language as a multilingual object, I argue that the education of Dutch high school students with regard to the Dutch language and culture currently falls short, and will not improve substantially with the proposed new focus on multilingualism. A more fundamental shift in focus is needed: the (re)connection of language and culture studies. For in the Dutch cultur Read More

Abstract In this response, I take the concept of monolingualism as a starting point to reflect on the authors’ comments regarding my lead article. For a long time, research in conversation analysis has mistakenly assumed that monolingual studies can explain universal conversation structures. Moreover, the new Common European Framework (2020) is also still based on separate monolingual tests. The authors agree that seco Read More