The paper focuses on the presence of English in a written chat corpus produced by Flemish teenagers whose native language is (a variety of) Dutch: it deals with the relative presence of several lexemes and word categories, with the effect on the target language and with the way the loans are integrated into teenager chatspeak, i.e. with (g)localisation processes. In quantitative terms, the impact of English on the informal “speech” of Flemish teenagers appears to be considerable, but the borrowing process is not a copy-and-paste practice. In many cases the teenagers transform the English words graphemically, morphologically and/or semantically. By using an extensive and reliable corpus and by quantifying and categorizing the English tokens in several ways, this paper aims at describing a representative case study for the appropriation of English by a generation the socialization process of which partly proceeds via electronic media.
2024. Expectation through imitation: towards a unified protocol for roleplay in developmental sociolinguistics. Language Sciences 104 ► pp. 101635 ff.
Zenner, Eline, Lisa Hilte, Ad Backus & Reinhild Vandekerckhove
2023. On sisters and zussen: integrating semasiological and onomasiological perspectives on the use of English person-reference nouns in Belgian-Dutch teenage chat messages. Folia Linguistica 57:2 ► pp. 449 ff.
Schuring, Melissa & Eline Zenner
2022. English from Scratch: Preadolescents’ Developing Use of English Lexical Resources in Belgian Dutch. Frontiers in Communication 6
Verheijen, Lieke & Roeland van Hout
2022. Manifold code-mixing in computer-mediated communication: The use of English in Dutch youths’ informal online writing. Ampersand 9 ► pp. 100091 ff.
Zenner, Eline, Laura Rosseel & Dirk Speelman
2021. Starman or Sterrenman: An acquisitional perspective on the social meaning of English in Flanders. International Journal of Bilingualism 25:3 ► pp. 568 ff.
Zenner, Eline & Dorien Van De Mieroop
2021. The (near) absence of English in Flemish dinner table conversations. Applied Linguistics Review 12:2 ► pp. 299 ff.
De Decker, Benny & Reinhild Vandekerckhove
2017. Global features of online communication in local Flemish: Social and medium-related determinants. Folia Linguistica 51:1
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