Youth language at the intersection: From migration to globalization
Edited by Mary Bucholtz and Elena Skapoulli
Special issue of Pragmatics 19:1 (2009) ca. 125 pp.
Elena Skapoulli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elena Skapoulli plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2009 Introduction youth language at the intersection: From migration to globalization Youth language at the intersection: From migration to globalization, Bucholtz, Mary and Elena Skapoulli (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
This special issue examines the linguistic production of youth identities under conditions of cultural mobility. Building on theories of migration, transnationalism, and globalization that have emerged in anthropology, cultural studies, and other fields, the contributions to the special issue… read more
2009 Transforming the label of ‘whore’: Teenage girls’ negotiation of local and global gender ideologies in Cyprus Youth language at the intersection: From migration to globalization, Bucholtz, Mary and Elena Skapoulli (eds.), pp. 85–101 | Article
This article examines how gender ideologies linked to global processes such as migration and the spread of youth popular culture pose certain challenges for teenage girls who live in patriarchal social contexts. Drawing on a corpus of ethnographic data at a multiethnic middle school in Cyprus, the… read more