Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Contributors v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Discourse constructions of youth identities 1
5. I. Peer group identities
6. Linguistic variation and the construction of social identity in a German-Turkish setting 29
7. Nicknames and teasing 47
8. Looking back when looking ahead 75
9. It’s not that I really care about him personally you know 93
10. II. Recasting literacy practices
11. Emotion and youth identities in personal letter writing 121
12. Spelling rebellion 151
13. ‘Nike Trainers, My One True Love — Without You I am Nothing’ 173
14. Constructions of identity in German hip-hop culture 197
15. III. Representations and positionings
16. Socio-cultural orientation, urban youth styles and the spontaneous acquisition of Turkish by non-Turkish adolescents in Germany 223
17. Swedish youth discourse 247
18. The youth and the gatekeepers 279
19. Mediated experience and youth identities in a post-traditional order 303
20. Index 333