The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture offers the first essential grounding of critical youth studies within sociolinguistic research. It is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in disciplines including Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Multilingualism, Youth Studies and Sociology.

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.

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

Sociolinguistic approaches to language and youth

Jürgen Jaspers and Pomme van de Weerd

• Critical perspectives on linguistic fixity and fluidity

Lian Malai Madsen

Part II Language, youth, sexuality, gender and affect

• Affect: discourse, politics, intersectionality

Tommaso M. Milani

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

Anna Franzén and Rickard Jonsson

• Affect, stancetaking, and gender in preadolescent peer cultures

Ann-Carita Evaldsson

• English as "the gay comfort zone" of hybrid youth identities

Brandon Epstein

Part III Vulnerability, survival and safe spaces

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

Adriana Carvalho Lopes and Daniel do Nascimento e Silva

• Youth in language endangerment and reclamation processes

Haley De Korne, Lorena Córdova Hernández and Frances Kvietok

• Youth activism and safe spaces: decoloniality and anti-racism online

Fanny Pérez Aronsson

Part IV Linguistic citizenship and youth activism

• Approaching a politics of youth through linguistic citizenship

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

• Youth, protest and (online) communication

Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla

• Black youth and the fight for linguistic citizenship in the United States

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

Part V Language policy, practice and youth agency in education

• Linguistic diversity in education, language policy and youth agency

Henning Årman

• Youth languaging and the school

Janus Spindler Møller

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

Steven Dixon-Smith

Part VI Teasing, policing and online communication in the family

• Teasing and policing among youth in multilingual families

Ragni Vik Johnsen

• Digital language practices and youth in the family

Andreas Stæhr

Part VII Language and youth identities in aesthetics and digital media

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

Ana Tankosic and Sender Dovchin

• Language, hip-hop and identity work on YouTube

Matthew Garley and Cecilia Cutler

• Graffiti

David Karlander

• Drawing Minecraft: small stories on metagames

Pål Aarsand

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

Jason Ranker

Part VIII Language, youth and place

• Youth, language and place

Marie Maegaard

• Contact dialects in urban youth culture and beyond

Oliver Bunk and Heike Weise

• Breaking barriers: the recontextualisation of Sheng in Kenya

Fridah Kanana Erastus, Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo and Margaret Nguru Gathigia

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

Christian Ilbury and Paul Kerswill

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

• Young people's political discourse: voice, efficacy and impact

Patricia Loncle and Sarah Pickard

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

Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Dahl and Jana Scheurer

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

Bente A. Svendsen and Samantha Goodchild

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

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

Moscovici and Bourdieu

Judith Bessant

• National identity and immigration in representations of youth in Western media

Rafael Lomeu Gomes

• Mediatization of youth voices

Anastasia G. Stamou

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