The aim of this paper is to examine features of adolescent discourse in Abdel-Fattah"s novel Does My Head Look Big in This? and investigate the ways in which such features contribute to the construction of the identity of the protagonist Amal.The study adopts a social constructionist view of discourse (De Fina, 2006) and is informed by the theory of indexicality (Silverstein, 2003;and Eckert, 2008...