Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture offers the first essential grounding of critical youth studies within sociolinguistic research. Young people are often seen to be at the frontline of linguistic creativity and pioneering communicative technologies. Their linguistic practices are considered a primary means of exploring linguistic change as well as the role of language in social life, such as how language and identity, ideology and power intersect.
Bringing together leading and cutting-edge perspectives from thought leaders across the globe, this handbook:
addresses how young people's cultural practices, as well as forces like class, gender, ethnicity and race, influence language
considers emotions, affect, age and ageism, materiality, embodiment and the political youth, as well as processes of unmooring language and place
critically reflects on our understandings of terms such as 'language', 'youth' and 'culture', drawing on insights from youth studies to help contextualise age within power dynamics
features examples from a wide range of linguistic contexts such as social media and the classroom, as well as expressions such as graffiti, gestures and different musical genres including grime and hip-hop
Providing important insights into how young people think, feel, act, and communicate in the complexity of a polarised world, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in disciplines including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, multilingualism, youth studies and sociology.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Foreword
Ellen Hurst Harosh
Introduction
A Handbook on Language and Youth Culture in the complexity of our times
Rickard Jonsson and Bente A. Svendsen
Part I Language and youth - traditional approaches and critical reflections
Sociolinguistic approaches to language and youth
Jürgen Jaspers and Pomme van de Weerd
Critical perspectives on linguistic fixity and fluidity
Lian Malai Madsen
Part II Language, youth, sexuality, gender and affect
Affect: discourse, politics, intersectionality
Tommaso M. Milani
"A THIIIEF!": humor, affect and stylizations at a detention home for young men
Anna Franzén and Rickard Jonsson
Affect, stancetaking, and gender in preadolescent peer cultures
Ann-Carita Evaldsson
English as "the gay comfort zone" of hybrid youth identities
Brandon Epstein
Part III Vulnerability, survival and safe spaces
Youth cultures as everyday utopias: the pragmatics of survival and hope in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro
Adriana Carvalho Lopes and Daniel do Nascimento e Silva
Youth in language endangerment and reclamation processes
Haley De Korne, Lorena Córdova Hernández and Frances Kvietok
Youth activism and safe spaces: decoloniality and anti-racism online
Fanny Pérez Aronsson
Part IV Linguistic citizenship and youth activism
Approaching a politics of youth through linguistic citizenship
Lauren Van Niekerk, Keisha Jansen, Sibonile Mpendukana and Christopher Stroud
Youth, protest and (online) communication
Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla
Black youth and the fight for linguistic citizenship in the United States
Kisha C. Bryan, Keisha G. Rogers and Tiffany Grayson
Part V Language policy, practice and youth agency in education
Linguistic diversity in education, language policy and youth agency
Henning Årman
Youth languaging and the school
Janus Spindler Møller
Youth language practices and ideologies of race and class in a UK university: a raciolinguistic perspective
Steven Dixon-Smith
Part VI Teasing, policing and online communication in the family
Teasing and policing among youth in multilingual families
Ragni Vik Johnsen
Digital language practices and youth in the family
Andreas Stæhr
Part VII Language and youth identities in aesthetics and digital media
New languages and new identities of post-socialist Mongolian and Bosnian popular music artists
Ana Tankosić and Sender Dovchin
Language, hip-hop and identity work on YouTube
Matthew Garley and Cecilia Cutler
Graffiti
David Karlander
Drawing Minecraft: small stories on metagames
Pål Aarsand
Youth video compositions as multimodal signifier chains: making meaning with gestures, objects, actions and speech
Jason Ranker
Part VIII Language, youth and place
Youth, language and place
Marie Maegaard
Contact dialects in urban youth culture and beyond
Oliver Bunk and Heike Weise
Breaking barriers: the recontextualisation of Sheng in Kenya
Fridah Kanana Erastus, Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo and Margaret Nguru Gathigia
How multiethnic is a multiethnolect? The recontextualisation of Multicultural London English
Christian Ilbury and Paul Kerswill
Part IX Youths speak back: youth voices and the political youth
Young people's political discourse: voice, efficacy and impact
Patricia Loncle and Sarah Pickard
"Trying (hard), but it's difficult": youth voices on lifestyle matters in a climate perspective
Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Dahl and Jana Scheurer
Citizen (socio)linguistics: what we can learn from engaging (young) people in language research
Bente A. Svendsen and Samantha Goodchild
Part X When youth(s) are talked about: representations of youth
Developmentalism and the politics of representing young people in public discourse:
Moscovici and Bourdieu
Judith Bessant
National identity and immigration in representations of youth in Western media
Rafael Lomeu Gomes
Mediatization of youth voices
Anastasia G. Stamou
Index
