Language and Age Flashcards

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Older - Gary Ives

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Study 
West Yorkshire 
63 teens various ages 
Asked question : do people speak differently depending on their age?
100% answered yes

As we get older, our language becomes more standard

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Experiences/important life events - Jenny Cheshire 1987

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Chronological age itself does not change language
Rather life experiences do

Against Ives

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Experiences/ important life events - Douglas S. Bigman 2012

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Important life events occur post 18
Term emerging adulthood
When language of an individual changes/diversifies most significantly

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Teenagers/features - Gary Ives

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Study
Group of 17 year olds
West Yorkshire school
Typical features of teen speak/teen vernacular

Informal register (grammatical feature)
Taboo language
Dialect (pragmatics)
Slang

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Teenagers/features -Anna Brita Stenstrom

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Features in teenagers

Irregular turn taking 
Overlaps
Slang (lexical feature) 
Taboo 
Teasing and name calling 
Verbal duelling
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Teenagers/features - Penelope Eckert 2003

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Research on teenage talk

  • slang is used to establish connection to youth culture
  • stay away from old generation
  • coolness,toughness, attitude

Linguistic change is much more common e.g new lexical items

Use of like and okay
Rising intonation (up talk) =(phonological feature)
Multiple negation

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Teenagers/ negatives - Ignacio Palacios Martinez 2011

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Teenagers use negatives more frequently than adults do
In orders, suggestions and refusals
Teenagers are more direct when they speak whereas adults are more conscious

E.g. No way, nope, dunno, na

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Teenagers/social class- Unni Berland 1997

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Teenagers concluded social class is also an important factor

Innit = common among working class 
Yeah = middle class 
Both genders use it in equal measures except for okay used more by boys
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Teenagers/ common features- Anita Stenstorm and others 2002

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Speech of 14-16 year olds in London

Common features =
Multiple negation
Use of ain’t
Non-standard pronouns e.g. Theirselves

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Teenagers/’like’ - Christopher V. Odato 2013

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Research of ‘like’ in children’s speech
Found children as young as 4 were using it
Identifies three stages :

  1. Mainly at the beginning of the clause = like you won easily
  2. Greater number of positions. Girls tended to move at age 5. Boys age 7
  3. Frequently in other positions, before a prepositional phrase = look how yours landed like right on the target
    Girls moves to this staged earlier
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Teenagers/ Instagram - Gary Ives

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Research 8-11 year olds
Older children no longer found it ‘cool’ to use informal variants of language in online communication
Grown out of it

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Teenager factors - Zimmerman 2009

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Media and press
New means of communication
Street art and graffiti

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Teenager factors - Vivian de Klerk 2005

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Kids Challenge linguistic norms
Seek to establish new identities
Want to be modern, cool, fashionable and up to date
Establish themselves as different

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Teenagers- other factors

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Wanting to be part of the youth culture
Technology
Either copying adult speech or diverging from adult speech

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