ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the second part of this book. The book focuses on the ways in which adolescents used stylized Asian English (SAE) among themselves. It concerns the role that crossing played in the organization of interracial adolescent solidarities, and with the way in which in interaction, crossing foregrounded, obscured or redefined adolescent knowledge of wider ethnic stratification and division. With critical uses of SAE, there was no systematic patterning in the data to suggest that the use of SAE by white and black youngsters was considered unacceptable per se, or that white and black adolescents carefully avoided its use in the company or presence of Punjabis’. The book deals with SAE's use with adolescents with lower peer group status and with friends and acquaintances. It focuses on games as a special context for interaction, which then leads into the discussion of Panjabi crossing.
