1. Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective: Introduction (by Stenstrom, Anna-Brita); 2. Part 1. Identity construction; 3. On young women's prosodic construction of identity: Evidence from Greek conversational narratives (by Archakis, Argiris); 4. Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: Identity construction among German teenage girls (by Spreckels, Janet); 5. Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context (by Lytra, Vally); 6. Part 2. Particular expressions; 7. Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: Some intensifiers (by Martinez Lopez, Juan A.); 8. En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language (by Jorgensen, Annette Myre); 9. Part 3. Languages in contrast; 10. A theoretical outline for comparative research on youth language: With an outline of diatopic-contrast research within the Hispanic world (by Zimmermann, Klaus); 11. Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway (by Stenstrom, Anna-Brita); 12. Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents (by Drange, Eli-Marie); 13. Similarities and differences between slang in Kaunas and London Teenagers' speech (by Legaudaite, Jolanta); 14. Author index; 15. Subject index