Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices
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Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices

  1. 367 pages
  2. English
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Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices

About this book

Most journal articles, edited volumes and monographs on youth language practices deal with one specific variety, one geographical setting, or with one specific continent. This volume bridges these different studies, and it approaches youth language from a much broader angle. A global framework and a diversity of methodologies enable a wider perspective that gives room to comparisons of youth's manipulations and linguistic agency, transnational communicative practices and language contact scenarios. The research presented addresses structural features of everyday talk and text, youth identity issues related to specific purposes and contexts, and sociocultural emphases on ideologies and belonging.

Combining insights into sociolinguistic and structural features of youth language, the volume includes case studies from Asia (Indonesia), Australia and Oceania (Arnhem Land, New Ireland), South America (the Amazon, Chile, Argentina), Europe (Germany, Spain) and Africa (Uganda, Nigeria, DR Congo, Central African Republic, South Africa). It expands on existing publications and offers a more comparative and "global" approach, without a division of youth's strategies in terms of geographical space or language family. This collection, including a conceptual introduction, is of interest to scholars from several linguistic subfields working in different regional contexts as well as sociologists and anthropologists working in the field of adolescence and youth studies.

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Yes, you can access Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices by Cynthia Groff, Andrea Hollington, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nico Nassenstein, Jacomine Nortier, Helma Pasch, Nurenzia Yannuar, Cynthia Groff,Andrea Hollington,Ellen Hurst-Harosh,Nico Nassenstein,Jacomine Nortier,Helma Pasch,Nurenzia Yannuar in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Contents
  3. 1 Youth language research: Changing perspectives, international trends and emerging themes
  4. Part I: Words and patterns
  5. Introduction
  6. 2 The emergence of Bahasa Gaul: A comparative study of Yogyakarta and Jakarta youth
  7. 3 Diverging verb derivational strategies in the youth language Yanké (DR Congo)
  8. 4 Exploring euphemistic initialisms in teenage computer-mediated communication
  9. 5 Teenagers and social networking. Twitter as a data source for the study of the language of London teenagers and young adults
  10. 6 Locating Sepitori in relation to South Africa’s youth language practices: An overview
  11. 7 Innovation and change in a multilingual context: The Innovative Tariana language in northwest Amazonia
  12. Part II: Specific purposes
  13. Introduction
  14. 8 On conversational humour in South African and Congolese youth’s interactions: A pragmatic approach to youth language
  15. 9 Youth language manipulation as decolonial practice in Uganda
  16. 10 “Whenever I smoke, I see myself in Paradise”: The discourse of tobacco consumption among rural youth in Nigeria
  17. 11 Notes on children’s secret language games in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
  18. 12 Three “bad” favourites in Spanishspeaking teenagers’ conversation
  19. Part III: Ideologies and belonging
  20. Introduction
  21. 13 Metapragmatics of mode-switching: Young people’s awareness of multimodal meaning making in digital interaction
  22. 14 Whose way of speaking? Youth’s self-reflexive voices and language ideologies in Uganda and Central African Republic
  23. 15 The youth linguistic index: Narrative persuasion and sense of belonging in a movie trailer
  24. 16 “We mix it up”: Indigenous youth language practices in Arnhem Land
  25. 17 Youth language before youth language
  26. Subject Index