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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture

Edited By Bente A. Svendsen, Rickard Jonsson Copyright 2024
    510 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    510 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    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.

    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

    1. Sociolinguistic approaches to language and youth

      2. Jürgen Jaspers and Pomme van de Weerd

    2. Critical perspectives on linguistic fixity and fluidity

      3. Lian Malai Madsen

      　

      Part II Language, youth, sexuality, gender and affect

    3. Affect: discourse, politics, intersectionality

      4. Tommaso M. Milani

    4. "A THIIIEF!": humor, affect and stylizations at a detention home for young men

      5. Anna Franzén and Rickard Jonsson

    5. From playful stylizations to serious mock fights: affect and performative acts of stance in preadolescent peer cultures

      6. Ann-Carita Evaldsson

    6. English as "the gay comfort zone" of hybrid youth identities

      7. Brandon Epstein

      Part III Vulnerability, survival and safe spaces

    7. Youth cultures as everyday utopias: the pragmatics of survival and hope in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro

      8. Adriana Carvalho Lopes and Daniel do Nascimento e Silva

    8. Youth in language endangerment and reclamation processes

      9. Haley De Korne, Lorena Córdova Hernández and Frances Kvietok

    9. Youth activism and safe spaces: decoloniality and anti-racism online

      10. Fanny Pérez Aronsson

      Part IV Linguistic citizenship and youth activism

    10. Approaching a politics of youth through linguistic citizenship

      11. Lauren Van Niekerk, Keisha Jansen, Sibonile Mpendukana and Christopher Stroud

    11. Youth, protest and (online) communication

      12. Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla

    12. Black youth and the fight for linguistic citizenship in the United States

      13. Kisha C. Bryan, Keisha G. Rogers and Tiffany Grayson

      　

      Part V Language policy, practice and youth agency in education

    13. Linguistic diversity in education, language policy and youth agency

      14. Henning Årman

    14. Youth languaging and the school

      15. Janus Spindler Møller

    15. Youth language practices and ideologies of race and class in a UK university: a raciolinguistic perspective

      16. Steven Dixon-Smith

      　

      Part VI Teasing, policing and online communication in the family

    16. Teasing and policing among youth in multilingual families

      17. Ragni Vik Johnsen

    17. Digital language practices and youth in the family

      18. Andreas Stæhr

      　

      Part VII Language and youth identities in aesthetics and digital media

    18. New languages and new identities of post-socialist Mongolian and Bosnian popular music artists

      19. Ana Tankosić and Sender Dovchin

    19. Language, hip-hop and identity work on YouTube

      20. Matthew Garley and Cecilia Cutler

    20. Graffiti

      21. David Karlander

    21. Drawing Minecraft: small stories on metagames

      22. Pål Aarsand

    22. Youth video compositions as multimodal signifier chains: making meaning with gestures, objects, actions and speech

      23. Jason Ranker

      　

      Part VIII Language, youth and place

    23. Youth, language and place

      24. Marie Maegaard

    24. Contact dialects in urban youth culture and beyond

      25. Oliver Bunk and Heike Weise

    25. Breaking barriers: the recontextualisation of Sheng in Kenya

      26. Fridah Kanana Erastus, Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo and Margaret Nguru Gathigia

    26. How multiethnic is a multiethnolect? The recontextualisation of Multicultural London English

      27. Christian Ilbury and Paul Kerswill

      　

      Part IX Youths speak back: youth voices and the political youth

    27. Young people’s political discourse: voice, efficacy and impact

      28. Patricia Loncle and Sarah Pickard

    28. "Trying (hard), but it’s difficult": youth voices on lifestyle matters in a climate perspective

      29. Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Dahl and Jana Scheurer

    29. Citizen (socio)linguistics: what we can learn from engaging (young) people in language research

      30. Bente A. Svendsen and Samantha Goodchild

      　

      Part X When youth(s) are talked about: representations of youth

    30. Developmentalism and the politics of representing young people in public discourse:

      31. Moscovici and Bourdieu

      Judith Bessant

    31. National identity and immigration in representations of youth in Western media

      32. Rafael Lomeu Gomes

    32. Mediatization of youth voices

    Anastasia G. Stamou

    Index

    Biography

    Bente A. Svendsen is Professor of Multilingualism and Second Language Studies at the University of Oslo. Her research interests include citizen science, multilingualism in society across the lifespan, particularly among young people, in the family, in education and in public discourse. She is author of ‘The dynamics of citizen sociolinguistics’ (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2018), the book Multilingualism – A Blessing and a Burden (2021, in Norwegian), co-editor of Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century (2015) and co-author of Multilingualism and Ageing (2020).

    Rickard Jonsson is Professor and Head of Section at the department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University. His work explores masculinity, sexuality, race and language use in multilingual classrooms, in texts ranging from critical perspectives on narratives of failing boys in school, to students’ play with tabooed language in ‘Swedes can’t swear’ (2018) in Journal of Language, Identity & Education, or humor and affect in ‘Fear, anger and desire’ (2021) (together with Franzé and Sjölom) in Language in Society.

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