Global perspectives on youth language practices / edited by Cynthia Groff [and six others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Groff, Cynthia, editor.

Series:

Contributions to the sociology of language ; Volume 119.

Contributions to the sociology of language ; Volume 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

1 Youth language research: Changing perspectives, international trends and emerging themes

Part I: Words and patterns

Introduction

2 The emergence of Bahasa Gaul: A comparative study of Yogyakarta and Jakarta youth

3 Diverging verb derivational strategies in the youth language Yanké (DR Congo)

4 Exploring euphemistic initialisms in teenage computer-mediated communication

5 Teenagers and social networking. Twitter as a data source for the study of the language of London teenagers and young adults

6 Locating Sepitori in relation to South Africa’s youth language practices: An overview

7 Innovation and change in a multilingual context: The Innovative Tariana language in northwest Amazonia

Part II: Specific purposes

8 On conversational humour in South African and Congolese youth’s interactions: A pragmatic approach to youth language

9 Youth language manipulation as decolonial practice in Uganda

10 “Whenever I smoke, I see myself in Paradise”: The discourse of tobacco consumption among rural youth in Nigeria

11 Notes on children’s secret language games in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

12 Three “bad” favourites in Spanishspeaking teenagers’ conversation

Part III: Ideologies and belonging

13 Metapragmatics of mode-switching: Young people’s awareness of multimodal meaning making in digital interaction

14 Whose way of speaking? Youth’s self-reflexive voices and language ideologies in Uganda and Central African Republic

15 The youth linguistic index: Narrative persuasion and sense of belonging in a movie trailer

16 “We mix it up”: Indigenous youth language practices in Arnhem Land

17 Youth language before youth language

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Groff, Cynthia Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices

ISBN:

9781501514685

1501514687

OCLC:

1301547317