Teenspeak

Question 1

Who initiated and co-directed three online corpora of adolescent language?

Answer 1

Anna-Brita Stenstrom

Question 2

What did Anna-Brita Stenstrom do?

Answer 2

1. She initiated and co-directed three online corpora of adolescent language

Question 3

How did Anna-Brita Stenstrom define ‘teen talk’? (9)

Answer 3

a. Irregular turn taking
b. Overlaps
c. Indistinct articulation
d. Word shortening
e. Teasing/name calling
f. Slang
g. Taboo
h. Verbal duelling
i. Code switching

Question 4

What is verbal duelling?

Answer 4

i. Competing against each other with language. (so like trying to outdo each other)

Question 5

What did Unni Berland do? (3)

Answer 5

1. London teenage talk.
2. Investigated class as a factor.
3. Focused on tag questions.

Question 6

Who looked into this?
1. London teenage talk.
2. Investigated class as a factor.
3. Focused on tag questions.

Answer 6

Unni Berland

Question 7

What did Unni Berland find?

Answer 7

4. Found that gender had no impact on tag questions.
5. But class did: (2)

Question 8

What did Unni Berland find?
Class does have an impact on the tag questions that you use.

Answer 8

a. Working class: innit
b. Middle class: yeah

Question 9

Who looked at ‘like’ as a filler/discourse marker?

Answer 9

Christopher V Odato

Question 10

What did Christopher V Odato do?

Answer 10

1. Looked at ‘like’ as a filler/discourse marker

Question 11

When did Christopher V Odato find that children used the filler/discourse marker “like”?

Answer 11

as early as 4

Question 12

What where the stages that Christopher V Odato found children began to use like?

Answer 12

a. Mainly at the beginning of the clause
i. Eg. “like you won easily”
b. Greater number of positions. Experimenting a bit more.
c. Frequently in other positions, before a prepositional phrase
i. eg “look how yours landed like right on the target”

Question 13

What did Christopher V Odato find gender wise?

Answer 13

that girls were more flexible with its use and tended to get there sooner than boys.

Question 14

Which features does Dan Clayton say that journalists claim to make up the denigration of English. (6)

Answer 14

1. Uptalk
2. Slang
3. New words
4. Americanisms
5. Non-standard English
6. Ghetto grammar

Question 15

Can you give me a fun fact about the features Dan Clayton found that journalists claimed to make up the denigration of English?

Answer 15

By some manner of remarkable coincidence they can also all be used to describe youthspeak

Question 16

David Chrystal quote:

Answer 16

1. “we are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it’s there” (3)

Question 17

David Chrystal quote:
1. “we are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it’s there” (3)

Answer 17

a. To be so creative about language you have to understand language to know how to deviate.
b. People reading texts are literally practicing their reading and writing.
c. People texting need t concentrate on words and sounds.

Question 18

Who said this: “we are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it’s there”

Answer 18

David Chrystal

Question 19

What stat did David Chrystal find about txtspeak?

Answer 19

“txt speak” accounts for barely 10% of the contents of messages exchanged