Language and Age

Question 1

Ives 2012

Answer 1

100% of students at a secondary school answered yes to the question - Do you think that people speak differently depending on their age?

Question 2

Strenson 2002

Answer 2

Identifies a range of features that are common in teenage talk, such as - irregular turn taking, slang and language mixing

Question 3

Martinez 2011

Answer 3

Teenagers used negatives more frequently than adults, especially in response to requests or imperatives

Question 4

Berland 1997

Answer 4

teenagers were much more likelt to use the tags, ‘innit’, ‘yeah’ and ‘right’

Question 5

Drummond 2017

Answer 5

Carried out a survey of attitudes to tenagers’ language. Found that older people tend to have more negative attitudes towards the language use, and that people who have a lot of contact with tenagers have more positive attitudes

Question 6

Ekhert 1989 + 2000

Answer 6

Jock and Burnouts Study - attitudes affect language, and young people tend to speak likt their friends.
Can be linked to social network theory and convergence

Question 7

Moore 2011

Answer 7

Bolton Girls Study - attitudes affect language, and young people tend to speak like their friends.
Can be linked to social network theory and convergence

Question 8

Bigham 2012

Answer 8

The language variety used by emerging adults is not based on region or class, but on other aspects of identity such as sexuality or belonging to a specific sub-cultural group

Question 9

Thornberrow 2004

Answer 9

One of the most fundamental ways we have of establishing our identity, and of shaping other people’s viwe of who we are is through out use of language

Question 10

Social Network

Answer 10

Everyone you interact with

Question 11

Sociolect

Answer 11

A social dialect or variety of speech used by a particular group, such as working-class or upper-class speech

Question 12

Code Switching

Answer 12

Ability to switch between different types of language