Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices

Edited by: Cynthia Groff , Andrea Hollington , Ellen Hurst-Harosh , Nico Nassenstein , Jacomine Nortier , Helma Pasch and Nurenzia Yannuar

Volume 119 in the series Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514685

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Most journal articles, edited volumes and monographs on youth language practices deal with one specific variety, one geographical setting, or with one specific continent. This volume bridges these different studies, and it approaches youth language from a much broader angle. A global framework and a diversity of methodologies enable a wider perspective that gives room to comparisons of youth’s manipulations and linguistic agency, transnational communicative practices and language contact scenarios. The research presented addresses structural features of everyday talk and text, youth identity issues related to specific purposes and contexts, and sociocultural emphases on ideologies and belonging.

Combining insights into sociolinguistic and structural features of youth language, the volume includes case studies from Asia (Indonesia), Australia and Oceania (Arnhem Land, New Ireland), South America (the Amazon, Chile, Argentina), Europe (Germany, Spain) and Africa (Uganda, Nigeria, DR Congo, Central African Republic, South Africa). It expands on existing publications and offers a more comparative and "global" approach, without a division of youth’s strategies in terms of geographical space or language family. This collection, including a conceptual introduction, is of interest to scholars from several linguistic subfields working in different regional contexts as well as sociologists and anthropologists working in the field of adolescence and youth studies.

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Cynthia Groff; Andrea Hollington; Ellen Hurst-Harosh; Nico Nassenstein; Jacomine Nortier; Helma Pasch; Nurenzia Yannuar.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
1 Youth language research: Changing perspectives, international trends and emerging themes Nurenzia Yannuar, Helma Pasch, Jacomine Nortier, Nico Nassenstein, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Andrea Hollington and Cynthia Groff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Words and patterns
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 The emergence of Bahasa Gaul: A comparative study of Yogyakarta and Jakarta youth Chantal Tropea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3 Diverging verb derivational strategies in the youth language Yanké (DR Congo) Janika Kunzmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4 Exploring euphemistic initialisms in teenage computer-mediated communication José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5 Teenagers and social networking. Twitter as a data source for the study of the language of London teenagers and young adults Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez and Paloma Núñez Pertejo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6 Locating Sepitori in relation to South Africa’s youth language practices: An overview Thabo Ditsele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7 Innovation and change in a multilingual context: The Innovative Tariana language in northwest Amazonia Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Part II: Specific purposes
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8 On conversational humour in South African and Congolese youth’s interactions: A pragmatic approach to youth language Ellen Hurst-Harosh and Nico Nassenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
9 Youth language manipulation as decolonial practice in Uganda Andrea Hollington and Dennis Gengomoi Akena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10 “Whenever I smoke, I see myself in Paradise”: The discourse of tobacco consumption among rural youth in Nigeria Eyo O. Mensah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
11 Notes on children’s secret language games in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea Christoph Holz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
12 Three “bad” favourites in Spanishspeaking teenagers’ conversation Anna-Brita Stenström Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Part III: Ideologies and belonging
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13 Metapragmatics of mode-switching: Young people’s awareness of multimodal meaning making in digital interaction Florian Busch and Maria Grazia Sindoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
14 Whose way of speaking? Youth’s self-reflexive voices and language ideologies in Uganda and Central African Republic Nico Nassenstein and Helma Pasch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
15 The youth linguistic index: Narrative persuasion and sense of belonging in a movie trailer Yusnita Febrianti and Nurenzia Yannuar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
16 “We mix it up”: Indigenous youth language practices in Arnhem Land Jill Vaughan and Abigail Carter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
17 Youth language before youth language Anne Storch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers, students in several linguistic subfields, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 354
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 11
- Tables: 34
Keywords: Youth Language; Language Manipulation; Agency; Language Variation and Change

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781501514685

Hardcover

Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781501520778

Paperback

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9781501522222