Style and Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction

Product Description


This book examines how style and intersubjective meanings emerge through language use. While numerous studies on youth language focus on face-to-face interaction, this book draws data from conversation, e-forums, teen fiction, and comics to offer an integrated account of language change in a community in flux.


Review


The strong point of the book is that the theory is very clearly illustrated with examples from the datasets, whereby complex theoretical concepts are made transparent. This book would, in my view, make suitable reading material for advanced students in sociolinguistics or interaction studies, and also for students interested in Indonesian youth culture. Also for students of literature and genre studies this book can be of interest. This book shows once again how immense the overlap in scope is between the study of everyday language use and literary texts.Margreet Dorleijn in: Journal of Pragmatics 143 (2019), 28-32


About the Author


Dwi Noverini Djenar, University of Sydney Michael C. Ewing, University of Melbourne, Howard Manns, Monash University, Australia.