摘要：Jørgensen and his colleagues make an important contribution to our understandings of bilingualism in young people through a series of empirical papers which also raise importantconceptual issues. The conceptual discussion culminates dramatically in Jørgensen’s deconstruction of the monolingual/bilingual opposition in young people’s mobilisationof available linguistic resources. The papers presented aim to complicate notions of the functions and functioning of bilingual practices in a number of urban settings. The context is also generational, with a focus on ‘second-generation’ young people, although little information is provided on social and migratory backgrounds. The chapters address questions of consciousness and individual choice in language use, and of the role of language use in maintaining or challenging both macro- and micro-social relations. Most use conversation-analytical approaches (CA), and are accompanied by extensivetranscripts in both the original languages and in translation.
