Language and Age Flashcards
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Gary Ives
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- Conducted research at secondary school in West Yorkshire
- 63 teens of various ages were asked whether they thought people spoke differently depending on their age- all agreed
- Identified informal register, taboo language and dialect forms as typical for teen speak such as; ‘swag’
2
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Penelope Eckert’s
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- 1998, discussion of age groups is not straight forward
- Different ways of defining age; chronological, biological and social age
3
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Jenny Cheshire
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- 1987, adult language as well as child language develops in response to important life events that affect the social relations and social attitudes of individuals
4
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Douglas Bigham
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- 2020, argues that important life events are more likely to occur post-18 at an age of emerging adulthood
5
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Ignacio Palacios Martinez
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- 2011, teenagers use negatives more frequently than adults do
- Teenagers tend to be more direct when they speak
6
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Unni Berland
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-1997, focused on tag questions
- Concluded that social class was an important factor
- ‘innit’ working class teenagers
- ‘yeah’ middle class teens
- ‘Okay’ used by more boys than girls
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Anna- Brita Stenstrom- ‘Teenage Talk’
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- Overlaps
- Irregular turn - taking
- Word shortenings
- Slang
- Taboo
- Teasing and name calling
- Language mixing
- Indistinct articulation
- Verbal duelling
