'Glocalised' Youth Culture as Linguistic Performance: Media Globalisation and the Construction of Hybrid Identities

Abstract

This article explores how young people�s cultural identities are being increasingly redefined in complex linguistic and performative relation to trans-cultural media experiences. Drawing on interviews with young people living in Malta, it examines children�s and young adults� use of and attitudes to language in a post-colonial bilingual context in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of the global-local interface informing the construction of contemporary youth identities. It argues that young Maltese people�s performative and linguistic constructions of their cultural identities provide a striking example of �glocal� hybridity, irrespective of whether they choose to claim Maltese or English or a combination of the two as the primary marker of their cultural identity.

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