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
Brief description: Dwi Noverini Djenar, University of Sydney; Michael C. Ewing, University of Melbourne, Howard Manns, Monash University, Australia.
Review Quotes:
"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