The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture

Bringing together leading and cutting-edge perspectives from thought leaders across the globe, this handbook:

• addresses how young people’s cultural practices, as well as forces like class, gender, ethnicity and race, influence language

• considers emotions, affect, age and ageism, materiality, embodiment and the political youth, as well as processes of unmooring language and place

• critically reflects on our understandings of terms such as ‘language’, ‘youth’ and ‘culture’, drawing on insights from youth studies to help contextualise age within power dynamics

• features examples from a wide range of linguistic contexts such as social media and the classroom, as well as expressions such as graffiti, gestures and different musical genres including grime and hip-hop.

Providing important insights into how young people think, feel, act, and communicate in the complexity of a polarised world, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in disciplines including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, multilingualism, youth studies and sociology.