Age Theorists
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- Created on: 09-03-18 15:20
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- Age theorists
- Eckhart (1998) - Age as a Sociolinguistic variable
- Chronological Age
- Biological Age
- Social Age (life events)
- Cheshire (1987) - "adult language, as well as child language, develops in response to important life events that affect the social relations."
- Teen Speak
- Gary Ives - West Yorkshire Secondary School research
- Four things found in the teen vernacular:
- Taboo
- Slang
- Regional Dialect
- Informal Lexical Choices
- Anna-Brita Stenstrom (2006)
- Study of teen vernacular in London
- Irregular Turntaking
- Overlaps
- Indistinct articulation
- Word shortenings
- Teasing and Name calling
- Verbal dueling (trying to outdo each other)
- Slang
- Taboo
- Language Mixing
- Eckhart (2003)
- Slang is used to "establish a connection to youth culture and to set themselves off from the older generation ... to signal coolness, toughness or attitude."
- Linguistic change is far more common in teenagers e.g. coining new lexical items
- typical features include: use of "like", rising intonation, multiple negation
- HOWEVER, "not all adolescents speak alike... differences ... are probably far greater than speech"
- Zimmerman (2009)
- factors that affect teen speech: - news and press, new means of communication (phones), graffiti
- Christopher V. Odato (2013)
- Use of "like" - use begins as young as four
- Stage 1 - begins infrequently, as young as four, girls use is before boys
- Stage 2 - used more often. Girls begin this stage at 5, boys at 7
- Stage 3 - used frequently and in more positions in a sentence
- Vivian de Klerk (2005)
- Young people have freedom to challenge linguistic norms
- Seek to establish new identies
- Patterns of Speech 'slowly eroded by peer groups'
- Gary Ives - West Yorkshire Secondary School research
- Eckhart (1998) - Age as a Sociolinguistic variable
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