The present study investigates to what extent students, who originate from outside of the Randstad area, accommodate their accent, during their studies here, to Leiden students who have studied in...Show moreThe present study investigates to what extent students, who originate from outside of the Randstad area, accommodate their accent, during their studies here, to Leiden students who have studied in Leiden for a longer time. Moreover, a linguistically marked feature, the ''Gooise r'' is also said to be employed in Leiden and cultivated among these Leiden students. Both of these phenomena were investigated through qualitative interviews. This was researched via the following questions. 1. To what extent do students who come from outside of Leiden accommodate their accent to their peers and why? a. What did they alter? b. To what extent do students possess the so-called Gooise ''r''? c. What are the social and or linguistic connotations of the Gooise ''r'' in Leiden student circles? d. Do they align with existing academic and popular media ones? It turned out that these students accommodated their accent and language to their peers in varying degrees. Possible reasons were their social network, intergroup relations, remarks and preventing miscommunication. The ''Gooise r'' was also present among the majority of the participants. They associated its usage with posh Leiden students or posh people in general, middle class ''Leids'' or working class ''Leienaren''. They all attributed its usage to the Randstad region.Show less
The current research investigated gardening motivations, the difference between the desired and actual garden and their effect on gardening behaviour and intentions for residents of Leiden. It was...Show moreThe current research investigated gardening motivations, the difference between the desired and actual garden and their effect on gardening behaviour and intentions for residents of Leiden. It was hypothesised that a high motivation to garden, a strong wish to have a greener garden and their interaction had a positive effect on past greening behaviour and current greening intentions. Furthermore, it was expected that social, ecological and personal/practical gardening motivations would differ in their influence on current greening intentions and past greening behaviour. Results indicate that current greening intentions are significantly predicted by the motivation to garden, the garden wishes and their interaction. Explaining past greening behaviour was judged difficult due to a non-normal distribution of past greening behaviour scores. When investigating the three gardening motivation types, results indicated that an ecological motivation to garden significantly explained current greening intentions, but not past greening behaviour.Show less
This thesis examines the buying behaviour of Dutch women during the eighteenth century and determines whether a change can be detected in the kinds of works that women bought. The research is based...Show moreThis thesis examines the buying behaviour of Dutch women during the eighteenth century and determines whether a change can be detected in the kinds of works that women bought. The research is based on the female customers that came to Luchtmans, an academic bookshop in Leiden, and thus the main source of this study is the extensive archive that the firm has left behind. At the start of the eighteenth century, a wealthy mother primarily visited the shop to purchase school books for her young children. However, as the century progressed, an increasing number of unmarried women came to buy newspapers and novels, as they had more freedom to pursue their own interests. Although these women were certainly not representative of the general female population in Leiden, an interesting shift presented itself when comparing women from two time periods in the eighteenth century.Show less
