Publications

Publication details [#53538]

Vandekerckhove, Reinhild and Judith Nobels. 2010. Code eclecticism: Linguistic variation and code alternation in the chat language of Flemish teenagers. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14 (5) : 657–677.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-mixing | internet | language variety | teenager

Language as a subject

Flemish

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper discusses how in their chatspeak, West-Flemish teenagers create a 'regional style', combining very eclectically various Dutch varieties. This result impeaches the polarized opinion on Dutch in Flanders.