Millennials talking media: Creating intertextual identities in everyday conversation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 198. Pb. $40.

Sylvia Sierra, Millennials talking media: Creating intertextual identities in everyday conversation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 198. Pb. $40.

Initially intrigued by how her friends frequently reference video games for fun, Sierra sets out to write a book about how and why individuals reference media in their everyday talk. Drawing from five naturally occurring conversations among ten Millennial friends, the author adopts an interactional sociolinguistic perspective to unravel the forms and functions of media intertextuality in managing epistemic knowledge, establishing relationships, and constructing individual and group identities in interaction.

This book is organized around two interrelated themes except for an introduction (chapter 1) and a conclusion (chapter 6). In the first half of the book (chapters 2 and 3), Sierra discusses how media references are phonetically signaled in conversations and how participants mutually engage...