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Willemyns, Roland – 1987
While the concepts of language continuum and diglossia are widely cited and discussed, they remain generally vague and are used in different ways by different linguists. Recent sociolinguistic research on Dutch-speaking Belgium provides a framework for examining the two concepts, a context for proposing a theoretical definition for language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Diglossia, Dutch
