Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century

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.

• 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.

'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, Universität Hamburg