The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture by Svendsen, Bente A.; Jonsson, Rickard;

Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture offers the first essential grounding of critical youth studies within sociolinguistic research. It is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in disciplines including Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Multilingualism, Youth Studies and Sociology.

Long 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.

Table of 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