This collection of essays offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on the skilful and varied ways in which young people of different ages, classes and ethnicities construct their world through language. There are contributions from sociolinguists, anthropologists and sociologists.

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.

Kids Talk is an excellent demonstration of the value of such integration.