“Firmly grounded in a new wave of transgressive sociolinguistics, this book introduces the notion of transglossic practices to shed new light on the ways young people from Mongolia and Bangladesh appropriate globally and locally circulating semiotic resources in their everyday communicative activities on and offline. The authors theorize popular culture as a space of semiotic practice that enables people to experience creativity and pleasure as much as negotiate relations of power and inequality. Thought provoking and full of engaging examples, this book shows how a view from the periphery can shed light to semiotic practices that shape late modern societies on a global scale.” (Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg, Germany)

“A timely and intriguing study of the language of youth culture in the digital age. By studying how early adopters of new communicative technologies experiment and promote sociolinguistic change, this joint project provides a fascinating look into the creation of new semiolinguistic meanings and practices.” (Marco Jacquemet, University of San Francisco, USA)

“This fascinating book does a lot of really interesting things – showing how young people take up linguistic resources and voices from different sources of popular culture – but above all its significance lies in the relocation of this discussion from Europe and North America to young adults in the Asian peripheries.”(Angel Lin, The University of Hong Kong, China)