Language and Age
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- Language and Age
- Penelope Eckert
- (2003) **** is a way to diverge from others and used a sign of 'coolness'
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- Three ways to consider age
- Chronological Age
- Years since birth
- Biological Age
- Physical maturity
- Social Age
- Linked to life events
- Chronological Age
- (2003) **** is a way to diverge from others and used a sign of 'coolness'
- Giles Accomodation Theory - Divergence
- Teenagers diverge from 'adult speech' to create their own identity as a group
- Many teens feel the need for acceptance from their peers
- Teens feel the need to assert their dominance through their own language
- Face Threatening Acts (Erving Goffman 1955)
- Older generations disliking the new language used by younger generations is a negative FTA as it threatens their independence
- Younger generations new language threatens the older generations positive face as they would feel left out
- Purposely creates a barrier between the two age groups for distance and individuality
- Labov - Martha's Vineyard
- Younger generations wanted to follow the older generations
- Used old language in order to actively create a connection between the young generations and the older generations
- Idea that teens actively choose to converge or diverge to give a different impression of themselves
- Jenny Cheshire (1987)
- Language develops in response to important life events that affect social relations and social attitudes of individuals
- Anna-Brita Stenstrom
- Some features of young people's speech includes
- Irregular turn-taking
- Overlaps
- Elision/abbreviations
- Teasing and name calling/verbal duelling
- Slang/taboo
- Language mixing
- Some features of young people's speech includes
- Penelope Eckert
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