This volume brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices of young people in multilingual urban spaces.

Jonathan Ilan presents a unique, theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world – its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal.

Youth subcultures: Theory, history and the Australian experience is the classic text acknowledging the diversity of views and opinions on the nature and dynamics of youth subcultures.

Drawing on Derridean deconstruction, Deconstructing youth analyses the limits of dominant youth discourses, revealing the ways in which commonsense assumptions about young people are marked by contradictory expectations that actually ...