ABSTRACT
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
part I|30 pages
Language and youth – Traditional approaches and critical reflections
part II|62 pages
Language, youth, sexuality, gender and affect
part III|42 pages
Vulnerability, survival and safe spaces
part IV|42 pages
Linguistic citizenship and youth activism
part V|42 pages
Language policy, practice and youth agency in education
chapter 15|14 pages
Youth language practices and ideologies of race and class in a UK university
part VI|30 pages
Teasing, policing and online communication in the family
part VII|68 pages
Language and youth identities in aesthetics and digital media
chapter 22|14 pages
Youth video compositions as multimodal signifier chains
part VIII|60 pages
Language, youth and place
chapter 26|15 pages
How multiethnic is a multiethnolect?
part IX|44 pages
Youths speak back: Youth voices and the political youth
chapter 28|15 pages
‘Trying (hard), but it's difficult’
chapter 29|14 pages
Citizen (socio)linguistics
part X|42 pages
When youth(s) are talked about: Representations of youth