Outreach & Media

2023

Ruhr German – Interview titled „Ruhrdeutsch wird oft mit Heimatgefühl assoziiert.“

2022

Pecht, N. Cité Duits (Mining District German). In: Babel: The language magazine.

Pecht, N. in cooperation with the UM video team (2022). Short film about „Language Contact in a Mining Community,“ which was shortlisted for the AVT/Lot Dissertation Award 2021.

2021

Renckens, E. (2021). Onderzocht. Cité-Duits: ondergrondse taal in Vlaanderen. In: Onze Taal 2021 (7/8). p. 29. Click here to read the article.

De mysterieuze mijnwerkerstaal Cité-Duits zal weldra uitsterven, dus onderzoek komt nog net op tijd. Newspaper article in the Dutch newspaper De Limburger. Click here to read the article.

Pecht, N. (2021). Sociolinguïstisch onderzoek naar uitstervende mijnwerkerstaal. Article in the Online-magazine Neerlandistiek (in Dutch). March 2021. Click here to read the article.

2018

Am Schnittpunkt von Niederländisch und Deutsch: das Cité Duits ehemaliger Bergarbeiter in Belgien-Limburg. Public Lecture: Symposium Gruuts op mien moojertaol, Maastricht, 21. February 2018.

2017

Hoe net over de grens razendsnel een unieke taal ontstond. 17. February 2017. The Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published an article about my research project. The article can be accessed here.

2016

Short film about my PhD project made by the University of Maastricht. Click on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZDntI_umcs

A fused variety? The use of dialectal features in coalminers speech. Public Lecture: De dynamiek van het Limburgs: accenten en fundamenten, Maastricht, 14. December 2016.

Cité Duits – a language as no other. Public Lecture: NWO & Dutch Association of Science Journalists, Bessensap, de Rode Hoed Amsterdam, 10. June 2016. See https://www.nwo.nl/bijeenkomsten/bessensap