The politics of labeling youth vernaculars in the Netherlands and Belgium
Introduction: Professional and common usage of language names This chapter critically analyses the labelling of youthful language use in Belgium and the Netherlands. Urban youthful speech practices have in recent years been assigned a variety of labels, some of which have gained currency among insiders as well as outsiders. Linguists have not infrequently contributed to (the success of) this labelling process through their scholarly descriptions and public communication about their work (see e.g. Labov 1969, 1972a, on ‘Black English vernacular’ or ‘ebonics’). We argue, however, that regardless... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | bookPart |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Schlagwörter: | Sociolinguistique |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/159648 |