Overview

The language of young people is central in sociolinguistic research, as it is seen to be innovative and a primary source of knowledge about linguistic change and the role of language. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices of young people in multilingual urban spaces, with analyses ranging from grammar to ideology. It includes fascinating examples from cities in Europe, Africa, Canada and the US to demonstrate how young people express their identities through language, for example in hip-hop lyrics and new social media. This is the first book to cover the topic from a globally diverse perspective, and it investigates how linguistic practices across different communities intersect with age, ethnicity, gender and class. In doing so it shows commonalities and differences in how young people experience, act and relate to the contemporary social, cultural and linguistic complexity of the twenty-first century.

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Author:   Jacomine Nortier (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) ,  Bente A. Svendsen (Universitetet i Oslo)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9781107016989

ISBN 10:   1107016983
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   19 March 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Content and Concepts: 1. Language, youth and identity in the twenty-first century: content and continuations Bente A. Svendsen; 2. Contemporary urban vernaculars Ben Rampton; 3. The politics of labelling youth vernaculars in the Netherlands and Belgium Leonie Cornips, Jürgen Jaspers and Vincent de Rooij; Part II. Forms and Functions: 4. Beyond verb second – a matter of novel information structural effects? Evidence from Norwegian, Swedish, German and Dutch Ulrike Freywald, Leonie Cornips, Natalia Ganuza, Ingvild Nistov and Toril Opsahl; 5. Functional gains: a cross-linguistic case study on three particles in Swedish, Norwegian and German Lena Ekberg, Toril Opsahl and Heike Wiese; Part III. Language Practice, Values and Identity in Media and Popular Culture: 6. Shooting the subversive: when non-normative linguistic practices go mainstream in the media Tommaso M. Milani, Rickard Jonsson and Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi; 7. Where the fuck am I from? Hip-hop youth and the (re)negotiation of language and identity in Norway and the US Cecilia Cutler and Unn Røyneland; Part IV. Language Practice as Emblems of Becoming and Belonging: 8. Emblems of identities in four European urban settings Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese; 9. Language and language ideologies among Turkish-speaking young people in Athens and London Vally Lytra; Part V. Language Practice and Positioning in Interaction: 10. Stylized voices of ethnicity and social division Lian Malai Madsen and Bente A. Svendsen; 11. Verbal teasing among young people in Køge and Eskişehir Hülya Özcan, Lian Malai Madsen, İlknur Keçik and Jens Normann Jørgensen; Part VI. Language Practice and Urban Space: 12. Indexing locality: contemporary urban vernaculars in Belgium and Norway Finn Aarsæther, Stefania Marzo, Ingvild Nistov and Evy Ceuleers; 13. Urban youth speech styles in Kenya and the Netherlands Margreet Dorleijn, Maarten Mous and Jacomine Nortier; 14. Sociolinguistic practice among multilingual youth: comparing Swedish cities with Toronto Sally Boyd, James A. Walker and Michol F. Hoffman.

Reviews

'Three points will make this volume a strong contribution to the sociolinguistics of youth identities in the twenty-first century: its inclusive approach to structure, practice and ideology as closely intertwined dimensions of linguistic study; its coverage of a broad range of languages, communities, and communicative contexts; and the comparative design of the individual chapters, which reveal fascinating, and sometimes unexpected, patterns of similarity and contrast.' Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg 'This is an inspiring volume. The idea of co-authoring each multi-sited ethnography chapter is a wonderfully innovative approach to understanding what makes for diversity of local linguistic practices among transnational urban youth. This is a methodology for our times, promising a refreshing approach to global and South-North dialogues.' Christopher Stroud, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden 'One of the major contributions of this volume is the numerical extent of cross-cultural examples within each chapter ... researchers interested in youth language in superdiverse settings will find this collection of articles as an invaluable resource.' Katherine Morales Luge, The Linguist List

'Three points will make this volume a strong contribution to the sociolinguistics of youth identities in the twenty-first century: its inclusive approach to structure, practice and ideology as closely intertwined dimensions of linguistic study; its coverage of a broad range of languages, communities, and communicative contexts; and the comparative design of the individual chapters, which reveal fascinating, and sometimes unexpected, patterns of similarity and contrast.' Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universitat Hamburg 'This is an inspiring volume. The idea of co-authoring each multi-sited ethnography chapter is a wonderfully innovative approach to understanding what makes for diversity of local linguistic practices among transnational urban youth. This is a methodology for our times, promising a refreshing approach to global and South-North dialogues.' Christopher Stroud, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholms Universitet 'One of the major contributions of this volume is the numerical extent of cross-cultural examples within each chapter ... researchers interested in youth language in superdiverse settings will find this collection of articles as an invaluable resource.' Katherine Morales Luge, The Linguist List '... the methodological and thematic diversity of this collection offers an impressively broad overview of urban vernaculars in Germanic language-speaking Europe and selected urban areas around the world.' Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Journal of Sociolinguistics 'Three points will make this volume a strong contribution to the sociolinguistics of youth identities in the twenty-first century: its inclusive approach to structure, practice and ideology as closely intertwined dimensions of linguistic study; its coverage of a broad range of languages, communities, and communicative contexts; and the comparative design of the individual chapters, which reveal fascinating, and sometimes unexpected, patterns of similarity and contrast.' Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universitat Hamburg 'This is an inspiring volume. The idea of co-authoring each multi-sited ethnography chapter is a wonderfully innovative approach to understanding what makes for diversity of local linguistic practices among transnational urban youth. This is a methodology for our times, promising a refreshing approach to global and South-North dialogues.' Christopher Stroud, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholms Universitet 'One of the major contributions of this volume is the numerical extent of cross-cultural examples within each chapter ... researchers interested in youth language in superdiverse settings will find this collection of articles as an invaluable resource.' Katherine Morales Luge, The Linguist List '... the methodological and thematic diversity of this collection offers an impressively broad overview of urban vernaculars in Germanic language-speaking Europe and selected urban areas around the world.' Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Journal of Sociolinguistics

'Three points will make this volume a strong contribution to the sociolinguistics of youth identities in the twenty-first century: its inclusive approach to structure, practice and ideology as closely intertwined dimensions of linguistic study; its coverage of a broad range of languages, communities, and communicative contexts; and the comparative design of the individual chapters, which reveal fascinating, and sometimes unexpected, patterns of similarity and contrast.' Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg 'This is an inspiring volume. The idea of co-authoring each multi-sited ethnography chapter is a wonderfully innovative approach to understanding what makes for diversity of local linguistic practices among transnational urban youth. This is a methodology for our times, promising a refreshing approach to global and South-North dialogues.' Christopher Stroud, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden 'One of the major contributions of this volume is the numerical extent of cross-cultural examples within each chapter ... researchers interested in youth language in superdiverse settings will find this collection of articles as an invaluable resource.' Katherine Morales Luge, The Linguist List 'Overall, the methodological and thematic diversity of this collection offers an impressively broad overview of urban vernaculars in Germanic language-speaking Europe and selected urban areas around the world.' Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Journal of Sociolinguistics

Advance praise: 'Three points will make this volume a strong contribution to the sociolinguistics of youth identities in the twenty-first century: its inclusive approach to structure, practice and ideology as closely intertwined dimensions of linguistic study; its coverage of a broad range of languages, communities, and communicative contexts; and the comparative design of the individual chapters, which reveal fascinating, and sometimes unexpected, patterns of similarity and contrast.' Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg Advance praise: 'This is an inspiring volume. The idea of co-authoring each multi-sited ethnography chapter is a wonderfully innovative approach to understanding what makes for diversity of local linguistic practices among transnational urban youth. This is a methodology for our times, promising a refreshing approach to global and South-North dialogues.' Christopher Stroud, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden

Author Information

Jacomine Nortier is Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics/Multilingualism in the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics at Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. Bente A. Svendsen is Professor of Scandinavian Languages and Norwegian as a Second Language and the Deputy Director of MultiLing Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at Universitetet i Oslo.

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