Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices / / ed. by Cynthia Groff, Andrea Hollington, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nico Nassenstein, Jacomine Nortier, Helma Pasch, Nurenzia Yannuar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.,; Akena, Dennis Gengomoi,; Busch, Florian,; Carter, Abigail,; Ditsele, Thabo,; Febrianti, Yusnita,; Groff, Cynthia,; Hollington, Andrea,; Holz, Christoph,; Hurst-Harosh, Ellen,; Kunzmann, Janika,; Mensah, Eyo O.,; Nassenstein, Nico,; Nortier, Jacomine,; Palacios Martínez, Ignacio M.,; Pasch, Helma,; Pertejo, Paloma Núñez,; Sindoni, Maria Grazia,; Stenström, Anna-Brita,; Storch, Anne,; Sánchez Fajardo, José Antonio,; Tropea, Chantal,; Vaughan, Jill,; Yannuar, Nurenzia,
• HerausgeberIn: Groff, Cynthia,; Hollington, Andrea,; Hurst-Harosh, Ellen,; Nassenstein, Nico,; Nortier, Jacomine,; Pasch, Helma,; Yannuar, Nurenzia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 119
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 354 p.)

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.

Table of 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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