Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective: Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Identity construction
5. On young women's prosodic construction of identity: Evidence from Greek conversational narratives 13
6. Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: Identity construction among German teenage girls 31
7. Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context 55
8. Part 2. Particular expressions
9. Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: Some intensifiers 81
10. En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language 95
11. Part 3. Languages in contrast
12. A theoretical outline for comparative research on youth language: With an outline of diatopic-contrast research within the Hispanic world 119
13. Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway 137
14. Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents 161
15. Similarities and differences between slang in Kaunas and London Teenagers' speech 177
16. Author index 203
17. Subject index 205