Strange bedfellows: Appropriations of a tainted urban dialect

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 493-524

  Jaspers, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antwerp dialect; Dialect appropriation; School interaction; Style; Stylisation; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053253176     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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