Following Cameron (Verbal hygiene, Routledge, Florence, 1995), this paper investigates language activism as ‘verbal hygiene’, with a focus on the social dimension of students’ attempts to change how language is used at the school. This paper explores youths’ language activism at a Swedish senior high school. Future directions identified include the potential for more work focussing on humour, and developing attention to space and mobilities. Three current research areas are then discussed: the study of language ideology and the enregisterment of contemporary urban vernaculars research which aims to move beyond bounded conceptualisations of language, developing the concept of everyday languaging and research which locates youth styles in relation to global flows. It identifies critical issues and debates in the field, including problems associated with the labels used for youth language varieties, and the role of sociolinguistic researchers themselves in enregistering youth styles as indexical of Otherness particularly with relation to ethnicity and gender. It provides a historical overview of work on youth styles, identifying a shift from a more structuralist approach to the more practice-oriented perspective which has now become the dominant paradigm. The chapter starts by defining the term ‘contemporary urban vernacular’ and arguing for its value in referring to youth language practices. It explains the value of researching young people’s language for understanding language variation and language change, focussing specifically on work on urban youth styles in multilingual settings in contexts of migration. The ZIM framework provides conveniences, components, and controls for coding creativity on the canvas - includes accessibility and hundreds of colorful tutorials.This chapter addresses research on youth language in linguistic ethnography.Scrawl-canvas is an open-source JavaScript library for creating and manipulating 2D canvas elements.Rekapi is an animation key-framing API for Canvas.Pts.js is a library for creative coding and visualization in canvas and SVG.
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