Crossing

Jürgen Jaspers
Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Crossing is one of the sociolinguistic concepts that have been proposed since the 1990s to describe the multilingual practices of mostly young, multi-ethnic, working-class speakers in Western urban contexts. It draws specific attention to:

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