English from Scratch: Preadolescents’ Developing Use of English Lexical Resources in Belgian Dutch

Working within the framework of the socio-pragmatic turn in anglicism research, this paper adds a developmental sociolinguistic perspective in investigating preadolescents’ use of English lexical resources in Belgian Dutch. The so far largely undocumented role of English in the linguistic transition...

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Main Authors: Melissa Schuring, Eline Zenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.788768/full