Language and Age

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How does Giles' accommodation theory relate to language and age?
Teenagers may diverge from adult language to create their own identity as a group. Many teens feel that they need acceptance from their peers. Teens feel the need to assert their dominance through their language.
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How does Irving Goffman's 'Face Threatening Acts' theory relate to language and age?
Older generations disliking new language used by younger generations is a negative face threatening act as it threatens their independence. This purposely creates a barrier between the two age groups for distance and individuality.
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How does Irving Goffman's 'Face Threatening Acts' theory relate to language and age? #2
Younger generations new language threatens the older generation's positive face so they feel left out a lot.
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What is Penelope Eckert's theory?
The theory that there are three kinds of age; chronological (how many years since birth), biological (physical appearance), and social (life events).
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What is Labov's Martha's Vineyard theory?
The idea that teens choose to converge/diverge to give a different impression of themselves. Younger generations wanted to follow the older generations. Language was used in order to create a connection between the younger and older generations.
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Whast is Jenny Cheshire's theory?
The theory that language develops in response to life events that affect social relations and social attitudes of individuals.
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What are the 5 things that Anna Brita Stenstrom says that young people use?
Language mixing, slang/taboo language, teasing and name calling, overlaps, elision/abbreviation.
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