Kids Talk: Strategic Language Use in Later Childhood by Susan M. Hoyle (National Library of Medicine)
This is the first collection of scholarship devoted to the language of older children and adolescents. It offers a cross-disciplinary perspective, with contributors from sociolinguistics, anthropology, and sociology, using a variety of analytic approaches. The chapters examine skillful and varied ways in which young people of different ages, classes, and ethnicities construct their world through language.