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Ives
case study 17year olds W Yorkshire
students gave examples of teen lang: informal register, taboo & dialect common, relationship talk, age specific slang terms.
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eckert
1. diff ways of defining age
2. slang establish connection to youth culture to set themselves apart from older generation...signal coolness, toughness.
'like' & 'okay', rising intonation, multiple negation.
Teens don't all talk same, great diff. among ad
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cheshire
adult lang & child lang develops in response to important life events that affect social relations & attitudes of individuals.
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bigham
these 'important life events more likely to occur post 18, at an age classed as emerging adulthood
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strenstrom
teenage talk book: irregular turn-taking, overlaps, word shortening, teasing, verbal duelling, slang, taboo
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martinez
teens use negatives, multiple negation (e.g. I couldn't see nothing), non standard use of 'never' more freq than adults- more direct and less cautious of face-threatening acts
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berland
tag questions "innit?"=working class, "yeah?"=middle class, "okay?"=more male
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stenstrom et al
14-16 year olds in London.
multiple negation, use of "ain't", elipsis of auxillary verb (e.g. We been to park), non standard pronouns (e.g. hisself)
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Zimmerman
more influential factors: media& press, new means of tech, music, streetart
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Klerk
Draws several conclusions about lang.:
young people have freedom to challenge linguistic norms, seek to establish new identities.
10 of 14
Mind your slanguage and don't be an erk. YOLO
by Gary Nunn
should be celebrated not condemned
isn't exclusive domain of young
always loved by young
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Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
Denise Winterman
'like' used in diff. ways by teens- quotative, filler, exaggeration
fillers can be useful-allow people to think
older people think using 'like' makes you sound stupid. Emma Thompson said it makes her feel "insane"
Americans use 'like'-California Valley gi
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Linsay Johns(for)
sound stupid & uneducated
affects desirability
lang is power
not using it will empower young people
Michael Rosen(against)
all capable of speaking bidilectal
banning won't get rid of it
teens can code-switch
lots of slang varieties- diff social groups have own version.
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prescriptivist (neg)
descriptivist (pos)
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1. diff ways of defining age
2. slang establish connection to youth culture to set themselves apart from older generation...signal coolness, toughness.
'like' & 'okay', rising intonation, multiple negation.
Teens don't all talk same, great diff. among ad

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adult lang & child lang develops in response to important life events that affect social relations & attitudes of individuals.

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these 'important life events more likely to occur post 18, at an age classed as emerging adulthood

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teenage talk book: irregular turn-taking, overlaps, word shortening, teasing, verbal duelling, slang, taboo

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