As a major economic relational and identity resource communication is crucial to the
well-being and success of young people. And yet adolescents are typically characterized in the
media as inadequate communicators whose language practices adults bemoan as unintelligible and
deleterious. In looking to critique these pervasive stereotypes the editors of Talking
Adolescence have brought together some of the world's leading experts on youth and adolescence
whose interdisciplinary research demonstrates how communication powerfully structures and
meaningfully facilitates the lives of young people. Adding to the growing literature on
intergenerational and lifespan communication Talking Adolescence is the first substantive
volume devoted to young people.
