Language variation in the media of the Low Countries
Language policy is an essential part of national movements. This paper will demonstrate that the Flemish public broadcasting company has played an important role in the process of nation-building, through its use and dissemination of Standard Dutch. On the one hand, the public broadcaster wished t...
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Language policy is an essential part of national movements. This paper will demonstrate that the Flemish public broadcasting company has played an important role in the process of nation-building, through its use and dissemination of Standard Dutch. On the one hand, the public broadcaster wished to promote the Dutch language and culture. On the other, Standard Dutch was essentially imported from the Netherlands. The current flexibility in the media vis-à-vis the use of Standard Dutch reflects the changing role of the public broadcaster in general. In a competitive media context, entertainment has become more important, at the expense of the educational role of the public broadcaster. The analysis of this evolution is based on research into the personal archive of Johan Fleerackers, who for 12 years (1965-1977) was the chief advisor of several Flemish ministers of culture.
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| spelling | doaj.art-99b1807792974fc49444b56909ad295a2024-03-18T11:07:10ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792006-01-01210.38140/aa.v0i2.1127Language variation in the media of the Low CountriesAnnick Schramme0University of Antwerp, Belgium Language policy is an essential part of national movements. This paper will demonstrate that the Flemish public broadcasting company has played an important role in the process of nation-building, through its use and dissemination of Standard Dutch. On the one hand, the public broadcaster wished to promote the Dutch language and culture. On the other, Standard Dutch was essentially imported from the Netherlands. The current flexibility in the media vis-à-vis the use of Standard Dutch reflects the changing role of the public broadcaster in general. In a competitive media context, entertainment has become more important, at the expense of the educational role of the public broadcaster. The analysis of this evolution is based on research into the personal archive of Johan Fleerackers, who for 12 years (1965-1977) was the chief advisor of several Flemish ministers of culture. http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/1127 |
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