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DR. RIK VOSTERS

Professor
Department of Art & philosophy
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium

Professor Social and Political Sciences
Biography

 I hold a PhD in historical sociolinguistics, and currently teach as a tenure-track assistant professor in the department of Linguistics and Literary studies. My research interests center around the areas of historical sociolinguistics, language variation and change, corpus-based sociolinguistics, sociology of language, and language planning and policy, both from a contemporary and a historical perspective, and with a special interest in multilingual regions such as Brussels.

Research Intrest

 Historical sociolinguistics, language variation and change, corpus-based sociolinguistics, sociology of language, and language planning and policy.

List of Publications
1. Vosters, R. (2016). “Mitos de decadencia lingüística en la historia del neerlandés. Una exploración sociolingüística de la lengua en Flandes en los siglos XVIII y XIX.” In: Feliu, F. & J.M. Nadal (red.), Constructing languages: Norms, myths and emotions, IVITRA Research in Linguistic and Literature 13, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 265-281. 2. Rutten, G. & R. Vosters (2016). “Prescriptivism between the devil and the deep blue sea: Competing language norms in the Southern Low Countries (1815−1830)”. In: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I. & Percy, C. (red.), Prescription and Tradition in Language. Establishing standards across time and space, Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 137-151. 3.Peersman, C., Rutten, G., & Vosters, R. (eds.). (2015). Past, present and future of a language border. Germanic-Romance encounters in the Low Countries. Language and Social Life 1. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter Mouton. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-1-61451-583-8. 4.Vosters, R. & L. Villa (eds., 2015). The historical sociolinguistics of spelling. Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 18 (2). ISSN: 1387-6732. 131 pp. 5.Rutten, G., R. Vosters & W. Vandenbussche (red.) (2014), Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900. A historical-sociolinguistic and comparative perspective. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 3. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 334 pp. ISBN: 978-90-272008-2-2.
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