TY - JOUR AB - <p>Standardization efforts in Flanders, as in much of Western Europe, have led to a radically<br>declining use of traditional dialects for everyday communication. They are not, however,<br>substituted by standard languages as much as other, so-called sub-standard, varieties are<br>now increasingly occupying the vacant ground. The success of these sub-standard varieties<br>is moreover attributed to teenagers, who are said to be ever more indifferent to standard<br>language norms, to lose themselves in electronic communication and increasingly to<br>adopt multi-ethnic urban street styles. This leads to public concern, as only a competence<br>in Standard Dutch is said to assure school success and the ensuing labour market opportunities.<br>The stereotypical view of ethnic urban youth in Flanders is that they are incompetent<br>in Dutch or unwilling to speak it. The present article discusses and revises this<br>widely accepted view by analysing data collected during long-term fieldwork in a mixed ethnicity<br>group of teenage girls in Antwerp.</p> AU - Heleen Mercelis DA - 2012/2// DO - 10.21825/kzm.v66i0.17617 IS - 0 VL - 66 PB - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis PY - 2012 TI - “Dit is het nieuws van zeven uur met Mohammed”: Talige variatie in een multi-etnische jongerengroep in Antwerpen T2 - Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/71987/ ER -