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Publication details [#60706]

Cuvelier, Paul, Reinhild Vandekerckhove and Benny De Decker. 2015. The integration of English in Flemish versus African online peer group language: a comparative approach. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 46 (3) : 344–363.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | internet | language of wider communication | language use | speech community

Language as a subject

English | Flemish | Languages, African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study compares the integration of English in informal written Flemish and South African, Kenyan, Nigerian, Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean chat and texting data, by non-native or L1 English speaking teens and young adults. The groups notably share ‘universal’ English chatspeak characteristics, whilst differences may be imputable to local contexts and the medium.