Language And Age

Question 1

What study does Gary Ives do on Age?

Answer 1

Conducted a West Yorkshire study where he asked 63 teams of various ages, “do you think age influences the way we speak”.
– 100% answered “yes”.

Question 2

What is Teen Talk?

Answer 2

New phrases due to technology and their subcultures.
– Acronym such as “CBA“ and “LOL“.

Question 3

What did Penelope Eckert do?

Answer 3

Separated age into categories:
– social.
– Chronological.
– Biological.

Question 4

Who supported Eckert?

Answer 4

Jenny Cheshire (1989), suggested that both child and adult languages developed to life events.
– Kate suggests team talk was made to “establish a connection to youth cultures”. – And “to separate teenagers from the older generation“.

Question 5

What features does Eckert suggest that Teens use?

Answer 5

– Rising intonation.
– Multiple negation.
– “Like“ and “okay“ usage.

Question 6

What is a critique to this?

Answer 6

It is important to recognise that everyone is different.

Question 7

What does Martinez(2011) do?

Answer 7

Suggests that teams use more negatives.
– Argues that teens use more direct speech, where does adults think before they speak. E.G “no way” and “I don’t know”.

Question 8

What does Unni Berland(1997) explore?

Answer 8

Tag questions, “innit“, being associated more with the working class and “yeah” being associated with the middle class.
– Social class is an important factor.

Question 9

What did Anita Brita Stenstrom(2002) believe?

Answer 9

Believed teens use non-standard grammatical features:
– multiple negation.
–ellipsis of auxiliary verbs.
– non-standards pronouns.

Question 10

What does Vivian De Klerk(2005) suggest?

Answer 10

Conclusion of teenagers speech:
– “seek to establish new identities“.
– More “modern”, “cool“ and “fashionable“.
– This attempt to be “different“, implies that they need to be a part of certain groups that are “different” from adult and other teenagers.