Overview

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.

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Author:   Anna-Brita Stenström (Bergen University) ,  Annette Myre Jørgensen (Bergen University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   184
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9789027254290

ISBN 10:   902725429
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   05 May 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective: Introduction (by Stenstrom, Anna-Brita); 2. Part 1. Identity construction; 3. On young women's prosodic construction of identity: Evidence from Greek conversational narratives (by Archakis, Argiris); 4. Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: Identity construction among German teenage girls (by Spreckels, Janet); 5. Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context (by Lytra, Vally); 6. Part 2. Particular expressions; 7. Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: Some intensifiers (by Martinez Lopez, Juan A.); 8. En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language (by Jorgensen, Annette Myre); 9. Part 3. Languages in contrast; 10. A theoretical outline for comparative research on youth language: With an outline of diatopic-contrast research within the Hispanic world (by Zimmermann, Klaus); 11. Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway (by Stenstrom, Anna-Brita); 12. Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents (by Drange, Eli-Marie); 13. Similarities and differences between slang in Kaunas and London Teenagers' speech (by Legaudaite, Jolanta); 14. Author index; 15. Subject index

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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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