Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture

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.

• AcknowledgementsList of contributorsForewordEllen Hurst HaroshIntroductionA Handbook on Language and Youth Culture in the complexity of our timesRickard Jonsson and Bente A. SvendsenPart I Language and youth – traditional approaches and critical reflectionsSociolinguistic approaches to language and youthJürgen Jaspers and Pomme van de WeerdCritical perspectives on linguistic fixity and fluidityLian Malai MadsenPart II Language, youth, sexuality, gender and affectAffect: discourse, politics, intersectionalityTommaso M. Milani"A THIIIEF!": humor, affect and stylizations at a detention home for young menAnna Franzén and Rickard JonssonAffect, stancetaking, and gender in preadolescent peer culturesAnn-Carita EvaldssonEnglish as "the gay comfort zone" of hybrid youth identitiesBrandon EpsteinPart III Vulnerability, survival and safe spacesYouth cultures as everyday utopias: the pragmatics of survival and hope in the peripheries of Rio de JaneiroAdriana Carvalho Lopes and Daniel do Nascimento e SilvaYouth in language endangerment and reclamation processesHaley De Korne, Lorena Córdova Hernández and Frances KvietokYouth activism and safe spaces: decoloniality and anti-racism onlineFanny Pérez AronssonPart IV Linguistic citizenship and youth activismApproaching a politics of youth through linguistic citizenshipLauren Van Niekerk, Keisha Jansen, Sibonile Mpendukana and Christopher StroudYouth, protest and (online) communicationAna Deumert and Nkululeko MabandlaBlack youth and the fight for linguistic citizenship in the United StatesKisha C. Bryan, Keisha G. Rogers and Tiffany GraysonPart V Language policy, practice and youth agency in educationLinguistic diversity in education, language policy and youth agencyHenning ÅrmanYouth languaging and the schoolJanus Spindler MøllerYouth language practices and ideologies of race and class in a UK university: a raciolinguistic perspectiveSteven Dixon-SmithPart VI Teasing, policing and online communication in the familyTeasing and policing among youth in multilingual familiesRagni Vik JohnsenDigital language practices and youth in the familyAndreas StæhrPart VII Language and youth identities in aesthetics and digital mediaNew languages and new identities of post-socialist Mongolian and Bosnian popular music artistsAna Tankosić and Sender DovchinLanguage, hip-hop and identity work on YouTubeMatthew Garley and Cecilia CutlerGraffitiDavid KarlanderDrawing Minecraft: small stories on metagamesPål AarsandYouth video compositions as multimodal signifier chains: making meaning with gestures, objects, actions and speechJason RankerPart VIII Language, youth and placeYouth, language and placeMarie MaegaardContact dialects in urban youth culture and beyondOliver Bunk and Heike WeiseBreaking barriers: the recontextualisation of Sheng in KenyaFridah Kanana Erastus, Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo and Margaret Nguru GathigiaHow multiethnic is a multiethnolect? The recontextualisation of Multicultural London EnglishChristian Ilbury and Paul KerswillPart IX Youths speak back: youth voices and the political youthYoung people’s political discourse: voice, efficacy and impactPatricia Loncle and Sarah Pickard"Trying (hard), but it’s difficult": youth voices on lifestyle matters in a climate perspectiveKjersti Fløttum, Trine Dahl and Jana ScheurerCitizen (socio)linguistics: what we can learn from engaging (young) people in language researchBente A. Svendsen and Samantha GoodchildPart X When youth(s) are talked about: representations of youthDevelopmentalism and the politics of representing young people in public discourse:Moscovici and BourdieuJudith BessantNational identity and immigration in representations of youth in Western mediaRafael Lomeu GomesMediatization of youth voicesAnastasia G. StamouIndex