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Este artículo informa del proyectode investigación en curso en el que se estudia el uso de la lengua delos inmigrantes chinos como usuarios de su lengua heredada enAmberes y Bruselas. Específicamente, estudiamos el paisaje lingüísticode tres barrios étnicos chinos, comparando estas áreas en términosde los diferentes idiomas y dialectos utilizados, y su presenciavisual en el espacio público. Mapeamos la propagación geográfica delos diferentes idiomas en cada localidad y nos centramos en el dominiodel idioma, la traducción mutua en signos multilingües, y el usode diferentes escrituras y sistemas de transliteración. Comparandolos tres barrios y relacionando así sus diferentes paisajes lingüísticoscon sus distintas historias de migración y perfiles demográficos,intentamos mostrar cómo un estudio del paisaje lingüístico puede ser utilizado como una forma de conocer las prácticas lingüísticas degrupos minoritarios relativamente pequeños, como la comunidadchina en Bélgica, que a menudo permanecen invisibles en encuestassociolingüísticas a gran escala.

This volume revisits the issue of language contact and conflict in the Low Countries across space and time. The contributions deal with important sites of Germanic-Romance contact along the different language borders, covering languages such as French, Dutch, German, and Luxembourgish. This first monograph in English on the topic broadens our understanding of current-day issues by integrating a historical perspective, showing how language contact and conflict operated from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, the 18th and 19th centuries, and into the 20th and 21st centuries

AbstractThis article introduces the newJournal of Historical Sociolinguisticsby situating it in the developing field of historical sociolinguistics. The landmark paper of Weinreich et al. (1968), which paid increased attention to extralinguistic factors in the explanation of language variation and change, served as an important basis for the gradual development and expansion of historical sociolinguistics as a separate (sub)field of inquiry, notably since the influential work of Romaine (1982). This article traces the development of the field of historical sociolinguistics and considers some of its basic principles and assumptions, including the uniformitarian principle and the so-called bad data problem. Also, an overview is provided of some of the directions recent research has taken, both in terms of the different types of data used, and in terms of important approaches, themes and topics that are relevant to many studies within the field. The article concludes with considerations of the necessarily multidisciplinary nature of historical sociolinguistics, and invites authors from various research traditions to submit original research articles to the journal, and thus help to further the development of the fascinating field of historical sociolinguistics.

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Brussels is an officially French-Dutch bilingual city, yet in reality, it is profoundly and increasingly multilingual. Earlier research on the linguistic situation in Brussels has predominantly focused on the competing dominant languages, resulting in very limited scholarly attention to smaller language communities. This paper addresses this blind spot by exploring the language repertoires, proficiencies and practices of members of the Chinese communities. Linking insights from language ecology to the study of language maintenance and shift, and informed by the questionnaire data, we discuss how the changing sociodemographic backgrounds of the participants affect the language maintenance and shift of the whole Chinese communities. Our results do not reveal a traditional pattern of shift toward the dominant majority languages, but rather hint at a community-level shift toward more complex multilingual repertoires with an increased role for English and Mandarin, in tune with Brussels' increasingly international and multilingual context at large.