Advertising agencies are increasingly using English in Dutch commercials because of financial
and image reasons. This paper investigates how often commercials that contain English …

This paper reports on a quantitative investigation into the occurrence of English in product
advertisements in Dutch‐speaking Belgium, French‐speaking Belgium, France, Germany, the …

Over the last few years the methods and techniques used in sociolinguistics have aroused
keen interest and have continually been improved. Yet the claims that have been made about …

This paper reports on a study into the reactions of ‘native’ speakers of British English to
Dutch‐English pronunciations in the onset of a telephone sales talk. In an experiment 144 highly …

Although English has been shown to be the most frequently used foreign language in product
advertisements in countries where it is not the native language, little is known about its …

The English used in the Netherlands, a European Union country, is classified by many
linguists as an ESL variety, or, within Kachru's (1985) Three Circles model, as an Outer Circle …

This article gives a detailed analysis of devoicing of the voiced fricatives/v/,/z/,/y/in two
varieties of Standard Dutch: Southern Standard Dutch (as spoken in Belgium) and Northern …

How well L2 English is understood and how L2 English speakers perceive one another
within varying communication contexts has been studied relatively rarely, even though most …

Social capital is a crucial factor for expatriates to employ as they cope with the demands of
an international assignment. This longitudinal study used a mixed method approach to …

The study investigates phonological variation and change in two varieties of standard Dutch:
southern standard Dutch (spoken in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium) and northern …