Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective
Edited by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 184] 2009. vi, 206 pp.
Annette Myre Jørgensen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Annette Myre Jørgensen plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2020. Phraseology in teenage language in Spanish, English and Norwegian: Notes on a number of fixed expressions that articulate disagreement. Languages in Contrast 20:1, pp. 58–83
A set of phraseological units that convey disagreement in Spanish, English and Norwegian teenage language are observed from three perspectives in this paper: the phraseological, the pragmatic-discursive and the contrastive perspective. The underlying assumption of the analysis is that the… read more | Article
2009. En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language. Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective, Stenström, Anna-Brita and Annette Myre Jørgensen (eds.), pp. 95–115
This paper discusses the use of the Spanish expression en plan as a pragmatic marker, more specifically as a hedge in Madrid boys’ and girls’ spontaneous conversation, when used as a politeness device to save both the speaker’s and the hearer’s face. This function is the most frequent one in the… read more | Article
2009. Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective: Introduction. Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective, Stenström, Anna-Brita and Annette Myre Jørgensen (eds.), pp. 1–9
Miscellaneous
2008. Sobre la particular similitud de los neutros español y noruego. Revue Romane 43:2, pp. 235–247
The Spanish particle lo can appear in three different syntactic structures which are described in this paper. Depending on the structure in which it is inserted, lo can have three different functions: pronoun, intensifier and emphatic particle/element.
At the same time, the Norwegian definite… read more | Article
2008. A matter of politeness? A contrastive study of phatic talk in teenage conversation. (Im)politeness in Spanish-speaking socio-cultural contexts, Bravo, Diana (ed.), pp. 635–657
This corpus-based article explores London and Madrid teenagers’ use of phatic expressions as a politeness device in their everyday conversations. The starting-point for the study is Leech’s ‘Phatic Maxim’, which he suggests as a supplement to the four maxims making up Grice’s Cooperative Principle.… read more | Article