Hoe percipieert een taalkundige leek het Vlaamse taallandschap?

In this paper, the first results of a perception study in Flanders are reported. In order to gain insight in the way Flemish language users perceive the Flemish linguistic landscape, 80 informants were subjected to a qualitative interview in which they were asked to expound their views of the Dutch language situation. Moreover, they had to judge seven audio recordings, spoken in Standard Dutch or in several regional versions of tussentaal (literally ‘in-between-language’). By means of a qualitative analysis of the interviews, different types of perceptions of the Dutch language situation are identified