ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the linguistic practice and the contemporary identity-making of Dutch-Chinese youth, describes the historic context of the Chinese community in the Netherlands, and provides some notes on the methodology. It focuses on interactions of a metalinguistic character on three platforms, the Chinese-medium expat platform GogoDutch, the Dutch-medium teenage Asian and Proud community on the social network site Hyves, and the adolescent platform, Jongeren Organisatie Nederlandse Chinezen, a national organisation of and for Chinese youth in the Netherlands. Polycentricity is used in various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, including geography, political sciences and sociolinguistics. The range of verbal and communicative practices that constitute an individual's language and identity is repertoires, where repertoires are the arsenal of weapons of everyday communication that make up our linguistic and cultural selves. Online data collection focused on key moments of data that offer insights into multilingual identity repertoires.
