Vallah Gurkensalat 4U & Me!

Contents: J. Normann Jørgensen: Vallah, Gurkensalat 4U & me! Current perspectives in the studyof youth language - Ditte Laursen: Did he Make the Bus? Continuous communication among young people via mobile telephone - Helga Kotthoff: Constructions of the Romantic Market in Girls' Talk - Dafydd Gibbon/Malgorzata Kul: Economy Strategies in Restricted Communication Channels: A study of Polish short text messages - Jin Liu: The Use of Chinese Dialects on the Internet: Youth language and local youth identity in urban China - Christiana Themistocleous: Linguistic Innovations in IRC: Cypriot Greek phonological features - F. Hülya Özcan: Subordination in the Conversations of Monolingual and Bilingual Turkish-Speaking Children - Zeljka Matulina/Zrinka Coralic: Betrachtungen zum Gebrauch von zwei Germanismen in kroatischen Jugendmagazinen 2006 und 2007: frajer und sminkerica - Eva Neuland/Petra Balsliemke/Anka Baradaranossadat: Schülersprache, Schulsprache und Unterrichtssprache - Kerstin Paul/Eva Wittenberg/Heike Wiese: «Da gibs so Billiardraum». The interaction of grammar and information structure in Kiezdeutsch - Ulla Kleinberger/Carmen Spiegel: Höfliche Jugendliche im Netz? - Erika Werlen/Esther Galliker/Fabienne Tissot: Konzeptuelle Zugänge zu intralingualer Variation: Dialekt und Standardsprache in Gesprächen Deutschschweizer Jugendlicher - Elena Botsi: «Crasy ljopa»: Jugendsprachen zwischen Lokal und Global.

The Editor: J. Normann Jørgensen is Professor of Danish as a Second Language at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests are sociolinguistics with special emphasis on bilingualism, youth language and their importance for language variation. His has published widely in the field of bilingual research.