Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective
Editors
| Bergen University
| Bergen University
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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1–9
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Part 1. Identity construction
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13–29
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31–53
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55–78
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Part 2. Particular expressions
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81–93
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95–115
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Part 3. Languages in contrast
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119–136
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137–159
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161–175
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177–202
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Author index
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203–204
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Subject index
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205–206
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“[...] 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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Jørgensen, Annette Myre & Inés Olza
2020. Phraseology in teenage language in Spanish, English and Norwegian.
Languages in Contrast 20:1 ► pp. 58 ff.
Maíz Arévalo, Carmen
2020.
In Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 313],
► pp. 73 ff.
O'Boyle, Aisling
2013. Valuing the talk of young people: are we nearly there yet?.
London Review of Education
Palacios Martínez, Ignacio M
2013. Zero quoting in the speech of British and Spanish teenagers: A contrastive corpus-based study.
Discourse Studies 15:4 ► pp. 439 ff.
Palacios Martínez, Ignacio M.
2021. Taboo vocatives in the language of London teenagers.
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Peacock, Elizabeth A
2015. National identity and language: Class differences among youth in western Ukraine.
Global Studies of Childhood 5:1 ► pp. 59 ff.
Stamou, Anastasia G.
2013. Adopting a Critical Discourse Analytical Approach to the Mediation of Sociolinguistic Reality in Mass Culture: The Case of Youth Language in Advertising.
Critical Studies in Media Communication 30:4 ► pp. 327 ff.
Stenström, Anna-Brita
2012.
In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics,
Stenström, Anna-Brita
2014. Avoid silence! Keep talking!.
Functions of Language 21:1 ► pp. 30 ff.
Stenström, Anna-Brita
2017.
In Advances in Swearing Research [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 282],
► pp. 158 ff.
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General