Publications

Publication details [#42637]

Jaspers, Jurgen. 2005. Linguistic sabotage in a context of monolingualism and standardization. Language & Communication 25 (3) : 279–297.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | mocking | monolingualism | standardization | stereotype

Language as a subject

Dutch | Moroccan

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses how ridiculous playing with Dutch linguistic varieties helped Moroccan adolescents in Belgian schools to negotiate their participation and to challenge identity stereotyping.