Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective
Edited by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 184] 2009. vi, 206 pp.
Anna-Brita Stenström
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna-Brita Stenström plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 120] 2004. viii, 279 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings
Anna-Brita Stenström, Gisle Andersen and Ingrid Kristine Hasund
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 8] 2002. xii, 229 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2020 Chapter 16. From yes to innit : Origin, development and general characteristics of pragmatic markers Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, Jonsson, Ewa and Tove Larsson (eds.), pp. 265–282 | Chapter
The form innit (from isn’t it) is used as a pragmatic marker in the same way as yes, yeah and okay by London teenagers. This chapter discusses how this usage has developed by comparing The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) with the more recent Multicultural London English Corpus… read more
2017 Chapter 7. Swearing in English and Spanish teenage talk Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts, Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton (eds.), pp. 157–181 | Chapter
2016 Review of Bell (2015): We are not amused. Failed humor in interaction Functions of Language 23:3, pp. 384–390 | Review
2014 Avoid silence! Keep talking!: Pragmatic markers as phatic devices in teenage conversation Discourse linguistics: Theory and practice, Aijmer, Karin and Anita Fetzer (eds.), pp. 30–49 | Article
The primary aim of this study has been to find out whether the choice and frequency of pragmatic markers can be said to distinguish phatic talk (‘chats’) from informative talk. A secondary aim has been to consider the bonding effect of the pragmatic markers. Five conversational extracts from COLT… read more
2013 Youngspeak: Spanish vale and English okay Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 127–138 | Article
As has been emphasized in a number of publications, pragmatic/discourse markers play a crucial role in colloquial language overall, and in young people’s language in particular. But the use of pragmatic markers in a contrastive perspective has attracted less attention. This paper is devoted to the… read more
2009 Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective, Stenström, Anna-Brita and Annette Myre Jørgensen (eds.), pp. 137–159 | Article
The use of Spanish pues nada as a pragmatic marker, which has so far been overlooked in the linguistic literature, has aroused an interest among the general public, as reflected in an interesting correspondence on the Internet. This discussion has been used as a starting-point for the present… read more
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 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 | Article
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
2006 Taboo words in teenage talk: London and Madrid girls’ conversations compared Language Variation and Change: Historical and contemporary perspectives, Mar-Molinero, Clare and Miranda Stewart (eds.), pp. 115–138 | Article
This paper reports on a corpus-based comparison of the use of taboo words amongst middle/upper class teenage girls in London and Madrid. Two corpora of spontaneous conversation were used for the comparison; these showed that the most frequent words used by both groups had sexual reference, followed… read more
2006 A step forward in multilingual corpus research International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:2, pp. 245–254 | Article
2004 Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora, Aijmer, Karin and Anna-Brita Stenström (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
2003 It’s not that I really care about him personally you know: The construction of gender identity in London teenage talk Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities, Androutsopoulos, Jannis and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 93–117 | Article
1998 From Sentence to Discourse: Cos (because) in Teenage Talk Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.), pp. 127 ff. | Article
