This is the first study of processes of selfing and othering by speakers of a non-standard variety of Dutch. The group studied consists of young men in the Dutch city of Rotterdam who self-identify as Surinamese while having only very limited proficiency in what is considered their heritage language, Sranan. Applying a synthesis of principles and concepts from various semiotic approaches to the study of identification processes (Baumann 2004, Bucholtz & Hall 2005, Gal & Irvine 1995), it is shown that the youngsters in this study interweave categories of language, race, and place in assembling constantly changing multi-leveled identities that help to construct self and other. We will analyze the indexical workings of these interwoven categories and show how the constantly re-defined segmenting of these categories enables speakers to authenticate or denaturalize groups and individuals in changing discursive contexts.
2023. Navigating Potential Conflicting Identities: Identification Processes among Minority Youths in Portugal. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 22:5 ► pp. 399 ff.
Ronan, Patricia, Sarah Buschfeld & Manuela Vida-Mannl
2023. Multilingualism in Migrant and Refugee Contexts. In Multilingualism, ► pp. 195 ff.
Bouchard, Marie-Eve & Félix Desmeules-Trudel
2022. Nonconvergence toward the standard: the maintenance of a distinctive use of rhotics among the Santomean diaspora in Portugal. Folia Linguistica 56:2 ► pp. 423 ff.
Rickert, Marie
2021. Categorisation as Positioning-Practice in a Dutch as Second Language Classroom. Journal of Language, Identity & Education► pp. 1 ff.
2022. The Sociolectal and Stylistic Variability of Rhythm in Stockholm. Language and Speech 65:4 ► pp. 1034 ff.
O'Shannessy, Carmel & Lucinda Davidson
2020. Language Contact and Change through Child First Language Acquisition. In The Handbook of Language Contact, ► pp. 67 ff.
Kossmann, Maarten
2019. Is Dutch Straattaal a mixed multiethnolect? A Moroccan perspective. Applied Linguistics Review 10:3 ► pp. 293 ff.
Mourigh, Khalid
2019. A dutch multiethnolect? Metalinguistic commentary from Gouda. Applied Linguistics Review 10:3 ► pp. 317 ff.
van de Weerd, Pomme
2019. “Those foreigners ruin everything here”: Interactional functions of ethnic labelling among pupils in the Netherlands. Journal of Sociolinguistics 23:3 ► pp. 244 ff.
2020. Dialect acquisition by ‘new speakers’ of Dutch and their linguistic othering. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development► pp. 1 ff.
Nortier, Jacomine
2018. Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths. Language and Linguistics Compass 12:5
Young, Nathan Joel
2018. Talrytmens sociala betydelse i det senmoderna Stockholm. Nordand 13:1 ► pp. 41 ff.
Jaspers, Jürgen
2017. The colour of Dutch. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2 ► pp. 231 ff.
Keating, Elizabeth
2017. “They Blame, They Complain but They Don’t Understand”: Identity Clashes in Cross-Cultural Virtual Collaborations. In Identity Revisited and Reimagined, ► pp. 225 ff.
Cornips, Leonie & Frans Gregersen
2016. The impact of Labov's contribution to general linguistic theory. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20:4 ► pp. 498 ff.
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