De sociale betekenis van straattaal - Interetnisch taalgebruik onder scholieren in Nederland

In the past years a new youth language has appeared on multi-ethnic secondary schools in the Netherlands. In this language words, pronunciation and grammar derived from the languages of immigrant groups are mixed with Dutch. Until now, research on this 'street language' has mainly focussed on describing this new linguistic phenomenon. In the present article two questions are posed. How prevalent is street language? And what is its social meaning? To answer these questions a large scale survey was conducted among the pupils of 86 school classes.