Dick Smakman

PUBLICATIONS

2016

• Smakman, Dick (2016) The standard language. From construct of authorities to sociolect of a dominant community. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on East-West Historical and Comparative Studies in Standard Norms in Written Language, Tokyo, Japan, 6 December 2013.
• Smakman, Dick & Sandra Barasa (2016) Defining "standard". Towards a crosscultural definition of the language norm. In: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade & Carol Percy (Eds.) Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing standards across time and space. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
• Van Arnhem, Max & Dick Smakman (Eds.) (2016) Proceedings of the Van Schools tot Scriptie II Colloquium, Leiden, 4 Juli 2014. Leiden: Leiden University Repository.
• Smakman, Dick (2016) Pronunciation: Teach or ignore? In: Van Arnhem, Max & Dick Smakman (Eds.) Proceedings of the Van Schools tot Scriptie II Colloquium 2014, Leiden 4 Juli 2014.
• Chen, Xiang & Dick Smakman (2016) Avoidance of phrasal verbs by learners of English: Definitional and methodological issues. In: Proceedings of the Van Schools tot Scriptie II Colloquium, Leiden 4 Juli 2014.

2015

• Smakman, Dick & Thomas de France (2015) Pronunciation acquisition patterns of learners with different starting levels. In: Research in Language, 13, 2.
• Smakman, Dick & Patrick Heinrich (Eds.) (2015) Globalising Sociolinguistics. Challenging and Expanding Theory. London: Routledge.
• Smakman, Dick (2015) Review of “Sounds Interesting. Observations on English and General Phonetics” by John Wells. In: English Studies, 1, 1-2.
• Smakman, Dick (2015) Accent Building. A British English Pronunciation Course for Speakers of Dutch, 2nd edition. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
• Smakman, Dick & Iris van der Zwaag (2015) Zeven. Een sociolinguïstische studie naar de uitspraak van een cijfer. In: L. Hogeweg, S. Lestrade & P. de Swart (Eds.) Addenda, 409-414. Nijmegen: Radboud University
• Smakman, Dick (2015) The westernising mechanisms in Sociolinguistics. In Dick Smakman & Patrick Heinrich (Eds.) Globalising Sociolinguistic. Challenging and Expanding Theory, 16-35. London: Routledge.

2014

• Hoorn, Myrthe, Dick Smakman & Tony Foster (2014) Pronunciation grading practices by teachers of English. In: Rias van den Doel & Laura Rupp (Eds.) Pronunciation Matters. Accents of English in the Netherlands and elsewhere, 95-108. Amsterdam: VU University Press.
• Smakman, Dick & Thomas De France (2014) The acoustics of English vowels in the speech of Dutch learners before and after pronunciation training. In: Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (Eds.) Above and Beyond the Segments. Experimental linguistics and phonetics, 288-301. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Smakman, Dick (2014) Accent Building. A British English Pronunciation Course for Speakers of Dutch, 1st edition. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
• Smakman, Dick & Agnieszka Duda-Osiewacz (2014) A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis of Scholarly Publications by Polish and Anglophone Authors. In: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning, 4(2), 29-47.

2013

• De France, Thomas & Dick Smakman (2013) The effects of teaching Dutch learners British English consonants. An experimental study. In: Dick Smakman & Laurent Willemsen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Van Schools tot Scriptie I Colloquium, Leiden, 8 & 9 June 2012.
• Edisherashvili, Natalia & Dick Smakman (2013) Technology as a Tool towards Educational Reform: Implementing Communicative Language Teaching in Georgia. In: Dick Smakman & Laurent Willemsen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Van Schools tot Scriptie I Colloquium, Leiden, 8 & 9 June 2012.
• Smakman, Dick & Laurent Willemsen (Eds.) (2013) Proceedings of the Van Schools tot Scriptie I Colloquium, Leiden 8 & 9 June 2012. Leiden: Leiden University Repository.
• Smakman, Dick (2013) Van Schools tot Scriptie. Een colloquium over universitair taalvaardigheidsonderwijs. In: Dick Smakman & Laurent Willemsen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Van Schools tot Scriptie I Colloquium, Leiden, 8 & 9 June 2012.
• Smakman, Dick & Stephanie Wagenaar (2013) Discourse particles in Colloquial Singapore English. In: World Englishes: Journal of English as an International and Intranational Language, 32(3), 308-324.

2012

• Dick Smakman (2012) The definition of the standard language. A survey in seven countries. In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 218, 25-58.
• Botma, Bert, Koen Sebregts & Dick Smakman (2012) The phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid-vowels before /l/. In: Laboratory Phonology, 2, 273-299.
• Smakman, Dick (2012) Review of "The Vowel Space Paradox. A Sociophonetic Study on Dutch" by Sander van der Harst. In: Nederlandse Taalkunde, 17, 110-114.

2010

• Smakman, Dick (2010) Review of "Arabic Sociolinguistics" by Reem Bassiouney. In: Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics, 10.\

2009

• Smakman, Dick, Hubert Korzilius, Frank van Meurs & Esther van Neerven (2009) English words and phrases in radio commercials in the Netherlands. Their use and effects. In: ESP Across Cultures, 6, 107-128.
• Smith-Christmas, Cassie & Dick Smakman (2009) Gaelic on Skye: Older speakers' identity in a language-shift situation. In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 200, 27-47.

2008

• Smakman, Dick (2008) Review of "Last in first out? An investigation of the Regression Hypothesis in Dutch emigrants in Anglophone Canada" by Merel Keijzer. In: Nederlandse Taalkunde, 14, 364-369.
• Smakman, Dick & Cassie Smith-Christmas (2008) Gaelic language erosion and revitalisation on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Lan­guages, Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, 25-27 September 2008.

1997-2006

• Smakman, Dick (2006) Standard Dutch in the Netherlands. A sociolinguistic and phonetic description. Dissertation University of Nijmegen. Utrecht: LOT.
• Smakman, Dick (2003) Algemeen Beschaafd Haarlems. Gebruikskenmer­ken van het Standaardneder­lands. In: Jan Stroop (Ed.) Waar gaat het Nederlands naar­toe? Panorama van een Taal, 120-130. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker.
• Smakman, Dick & Renée Bezooijen (2002) The pronunciation of Standard Dutch. An evalua­tion study. In: Jan Berns & Jaap van Marle (Eds.) Present-day Dialectology. Trends in Linguistics, 333-352. New York/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Smakman, Dick (2001) Poldernederlands of Gooise r? De waardering van moderne uitspraakverschijnse­len. In: Onze Taal, 70, 88-89.
• Smakman, Dick (2000) Taalevangelisatie. In: Onze Taal, 69, 46-47.
• Smakman, Dick (1999) Criteria to define the standard language. A survey among Polish students. In: Z. Leszczyski, H. Duda, M. Kaczmarkowski & A. Karol­czuk (Eds.) Roczniki Humanistyczne Jêzykoznawstwo, XLVII, 63-85. Lublin: Lublin University Press.
• Smakman, Dick & Renée van Bezooijen (1997) Een verkenning van populaire ideeën over de standaardtaal in Nederland. In: Taal en Tongval, 10,126-138.

In preparation

• Smakman, Dick (in preparation) Discovering Sociolinguistics. An introduction to theories and applications. London: Palgrave/MacMillan.
• Smakman, Dick & Patrick Heinrich (Eds.) (in preparation) Urban Language Life. London: Routledge.
• Foster, Tony & Dick Smakman (under construction) English Grammar through Dutch Eyes. Bussum: Coutinho.
• Smakman, Dick & Marten van der Meulen (in preparation) The elusive dialect border. [book chapter]
• Van Meurs, Frank, Dick Smakman, Dionne Verstegen (in preparation) Language choice in popular music in the Netherlands.
• Tilstra, Klazien & Dick Smakman (inpreparation) Spoken academic English by Dutch university lecturers.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Dick Smakman (2015) The definition of the standard language. Presented at: Globalising Sociolinguistics. Challenging the Anglo-Western Nature of Sociolinguistics and Expanding Theory, Leiden University, 18-20 June.
• Dick Smakman & Thomas de France (2014) The effects of pronunciation training. The phonemes of Dutch learners of English before and after pronunciation training. Presented at: Accents 2014, Lodz University, Poland, 11-13 December.
• Dick Smakman (2014 ) Uitspraak; negeren of doceren? Presented at: Van Schools tot Scriptie II Colloquium, Leiden University, 4 July.
• Dick Smakman (2013) International definitions of the standard language. Presented at: The Fourth Prescriptivism Conference, Leiden University, 12-24 June.
• Myrthe Hoorn & Dick Smakman (2012) Pronunciation grading practices by teachers of English. Presented at: Van Schools tot Scriptie I Colloquium, Leiden University, 8 & 9 June.
• Thomas de France & Dick Smakman (2012) Het meetbare effect van uitspraaklessen Engels. Presented at: Van Schools tot Scriptie I Colloquium, Leiden Universitys, 8 & 9 June.
• Dick Smakman (2011) Nederlanders en hun Engels... Presented at: English department 'Open Dag', Leiden University, 19 November.
• Tony Foster, Dick Smakman & Myrthe Hoorn (2011) How friendly are the teachers? Pronunciation grading practices by teachers of English. Presented at: Good Practice Day Talen, Leiden University (ICLON), 28 January.
• Tony Foster, Dick Smakman & Myrthe Hoorn (2010) How friendly are the teachers? Pronunciation assessment by teachers. Presented at: Uitgesproken Engels. De uitspraak van het Engels in Nederland, Free University of Amsterdam (VU), 24-25 June.
• Bert Botma, Koen Sebregts & Dick Smakman (2010) Pre-lateral mid-vowel colouring and the Dutch tense-lax contrast. Presented at: Old World Conference in Phonology 7, Université de Nice, France, 28-30 January.
• Cassie Smith Christmas & Dick Smakman (2008) Gaelic Language Revitalisa­tion on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Presented at: Twelfth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, 25-27 September.
• Bert Botma, Koen Sebregts & Dick Smakman (2008). On the phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid-vowel laxing. Presented at: Sixteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester University, England, 22 May.
• Bert Botma, Koen Sebregts & Dick Smakman (2008) On the phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid-vowel laxing. Presented at: Taalkunde in Nederland-dag 2008, Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap, Utrecht University, 2 February.
• Dick Smakman (2006) Standard Dutch in the Netherlands. What it is and what it sounds like. Presented at: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics meeting, University of Leiden, 15 September.
• Esther van Neerven, Frank van Meurs, Dick Smakman & Hubert Korzilius (2005) Het effect van het gebruik van Engels in reclame op de Nederlandse radio. Pre­sented at: Tiende Congres van Vereniging Interuniversitair Overleg Taalbeheer­sing. Portret van de taalbeheersing, University of Nijmegen, 7 Decem­ber.
• Dick Smakman, Esther van Neerven, Frank van Meurs & Hubert Korzilius (2005) Het effect van het gebruik van Engels in reclame op de Nederlandse radio. Pre­sented at: Anéla Studiedag, Neder­landse Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap, University of Utrecht, 28 April.
• Dick Smakman (2000) Standard Dutch in the Netherlands. An evaluation study. Presented at: Seventh New-Zealand Language and Society Conference, Auckland University, New Zealand, 5 August.
• Dick Smakman (1999) Language standardisation in the Netherlands. Presented at: Methods in Dialectology, Memorial University of St. John`s, Newfoundland, Canada, 3 August.
• Dick Smakman (1998) Normen omtrent het Standaardnederlands in Nederland. Pre­sented at: Derde Internatio­naal Neerlandistiekcongres, De Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandis­tiek, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 8 July.
• Dick Smakman (1997) Een verkenning van populaire ideeën over de standaardtaal in Nederland. Presented at: Taal & Tongval symposium, University of Ghent, Belgium, 12 December.

Keynote

• Dick Smakman (2013) Language Standardisation: History, Effects, Approaches and Future. Presented at: Symposium on East-West Historical and Comparative Studies in Standard Norms in Written Language. Presented at: Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan, 6 December.

Poster

• Cassie Smith-Christmas & Dick Smakman (2008) 'He Brought Home the English': A Language and its Culture Besieged on the Isle of Skye, Scotland (poster presenta­tion). Presented at: The Sociolinguistic Symposium. Micro and macro Connec­tions, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3 April.