Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-5429-0
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 184, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stenström, Anna-Brita

Jørgensen, Annette Myre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective: Introduction
Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen
Part 1. Identity construction
On young women's prosodic construction of identity: Evidence from Greek conversational narratives
Argiris Archakis and Dimitris Papazachariou
Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: Identity construction among German teenage girls
Janet Spreckels
Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context
Vally Lytra and Taskin Baraç
Part 2. Particular expressions
Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: Some intensifiers
Juan A. Martínez López
En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language
Annette Myre Jørgensen
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
Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway
Anna-Brita Stenström
Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents
Eli-Marie Drange
Similarities and differences between slang in Kaunas and London Teenagers' speech
Jolanta Legaudaite
Author index
Subject index