Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Youth language research: Changing perspectives, international trends and emerging themes -- Part I: Words and patterns -- Introduction -- 2 The emergence of Bahasa Gaul: A comparative study of Yogyakarta and Jakarta youth -- 3 Diverging verb derivational strategies in the youth language Yanké (DR Congo) -- 4 Exploring euphemistic initialisms in teenage computer-mediated communication -- 5 Teenagers and social networking. Twitter as a data source for the study of the language of London teenagers and young adults -- 6 Locating Sepitori in relation to South Africa's youth language practices: An overview -- 7 Innovation and change in a multilingual context: The Innovative Tariana language in northwest Amazonia -- Part II: Specific purposes -- Introduction -- 8 On conversational humour in South African and Congolese youth's interactions: A pragmatic approach to youth language -- 9 Youth language manipulation as decolonial practice in Uganda -- 10 "Whenever I smoke, I see myself in Paradise": The discourse of tobacco consumption among rural youth in Nigeria -- 11 Notes on children's secret language games in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea -- 12 Three "bad" favourites in Spanishspeaking teenagers' conversation -- Part III: Ideologies and belonging -- Introduction -- 13 Metapragmatics of mode-switching: Young people's awareness of multimodal meaning making in digital interaction -- 14 Whose way of speaking? Youth's self-reflexive voices and language ideologies in Uganda and Central African Republic -- 15 The youth linguistic index: Narrative persuasion and sense of belonging in a movie trailer -- 16 "We mix it up": Indigenous youth language practices in Arnhem Land -- 17 Youth language before youth language -- Subject Index