Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective

Editors

Anna-Brita Stenström | Bergen University

Annette Myre Jørgensen | Bergen University

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Despite its potential influence on the standard language, there is still relatively little written about the language of the young. This book gives new insight into some important areas of their language, such as identity construction reflected, for instance, in prosodic patterns and language choice, the use of discourse markers and slang in a contrastive perspective, the pragmatics of fixed expressions and the impact of English on the teenage vernacular. Most of the articles are corpus-based, and all represent naturally occurring spontaneous conversation. The book will be of interest to linguists, university students and anyone interested in today’s adolescent language and language change.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 184] 2009. vi, 206 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 April 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.184

Table of Contents

Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective: Introduction

Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen | pp. 1–9

Part 1. Identity construction

On young women's prosodic construction of identity: Evidence from Greek conversational narratives

Argiris Archakis and Dimitris Papazachariou | pp. 13–29

Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: Identity construction among German teenage girls

Janet Spreckels | pp. 31–53

Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context

Vally Lytra and Taşkın Baraç | pp. 55–78

Part 2. Particular expressions

Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: Some intensifiers

Juan A. Martínez López | pp. 81–93

En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language

Annette Myre Jørgensen | pp. 95–115

Part 3. Languages in contrast

A theoretical outline for comparative research on youth language: With an outline of diatopic-contrast research within the Hispanic world

Klaus Zimmermann | pp. 119–136

Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway

Anna-Brita Stenström | pp. 137–159

Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents

Eli-Marie Drange | pp. 161–175

Jolanta Legaudaite | pp. 177–202

Author index | pp. 203–204

Subject index | pp. 205–206

“[...] this volume provides a much-needed focus on youth language in cross-linguistic perspectives, and raises important questions about how age is a factor in language variation. It also raises issues about data and methodology in studying these topics. In these ways, the research presented here makes a valuable contribution to the study of youth language.”

Janet M. Fuller, Southern Illinois University, in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Vol. 14 (2010)

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