This article questions the specificity of the “contemporary urban vernaculars” (Rampton) usually called “youth languages”. Starting from a review of the different labels designating these language practices, it shows that many of them link them to the expression of ethnicity, hence the success of the category of “(multi)ethnolect”. After having criticized this recourse to ethnicity, the authors discuss the role of linguistic contact in contemporary urban vernaculars since their linguistic hybridity if one of their mostly noticed features. They argue for the necessity to take thoroughly into account the social context of these language contacts in a way to understand their outcomes. Henceforth, the authors examine the role played by factors ...
Research on the increasing complexity of urban societies has highlighted a range of dimensions of di...
Due to several migration flows in Flanders many urban areas have become increasingly multicultural a...
The language of young people is often viewed very negatively by some sections of the mainstream med...
This chapter addresses research on youth language in linguistic ethnography. It explains the value o...
This chapter provides an overview of the study of multi-ethnolects and a discussion of the various l...
ABSTRACT: This article is the result of interviews conducted in a gymnasium in Stockholm; the purpos...
This chapter discusses the relevance of language contact in smaller-scale migration and linguistic d...
The building of large housing developments for, especially, immigrant working class families in banl...
Due to several migration flows in Flanders many urban areas have become increasingly multicultural a...
useful comments. This article argues that naming linguistic practices “ethnolectal ” is a praxis wit...
Due to several migration flows in Flanders many urban areas have become increasingly multicultural a...
This special issue examines the linguistic production of youth identities under conditions of cultur...
The language of young people is central in sociolinguistic research, as it is seen to be innovative ...
In this article the phenomena of multiethnolect, ethnolect, contact language and pidgin has been an...
This chapter traces the chronology of youth language in London from the arrival of the first post-Se...
Research on the increasing complexity of urban societies has highlighted a range of dimensions of di...
Due to several migration flows in Flanders many urban areas have become increasingly multicultural a...
The language of young people is often viewed very negatively by some sections of the mainstream med...
This chapter addresses research on youth language in linguistic ethnography. It explains the value o...
This chapter provides an overview of the study of multi-ethnolects and a discussion of the various l...
ABSTRACT: This article is the result of interviews conducted in a gymnasium in Stockholm; the purpos...
This chapter discusses the relevance of language contact in smaller-scale migration and linguistic d...
The building of large housing developments for, especially, immigrant working class families in banl...
Due to several migration flows in Flanders many urban areas have become increasingly multicultural a...
useful comments. This article argues that naming linguistic practices “ethnolectal ” is a praxis wit...
Due to several migration flows in Flanders many urban areas have become increasingly multicultural a...
This special issue examines the linguistic production of youth identities under conditions of cultur...
The language of young people is central in sociolinguistic research, as it is seen to be innovative ...
In this article the phenomena of multiethnolect, ethnolect, contact language and pidgin has been an...
This chapter traces the chronology of youth language in London from the arrival of the first post-Se...
Research on the increasing complexity of urban societies has highlighted a range of dimensions of di...
Due to several migration flows in Flanders many urban areas have become increasingly multicultural a...
The language of young people is often viewed very negatively by some sections of the mainstream med...