Publications
Publication details [#55193]
Jaspers, Jurgen. 2011. Strange bedfellows: Appropriations of a tainted urban dialect. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15 (4) : 493–524. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal WWW
Annotation
Drawing on an ethnographic case study at a multi-ethnic Antwerp school, this study illustrates how non-white students use the Antwerp dialect both with tainted connotations and as a means for negotiating a working-class, non-immigrant identity.