Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective / edited by Anna-Brita Stenström, Annette Myre Jørgensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stenström, Anna-Brita, 1932-

Jørgensen, Annette Myre.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 184.

Pragmatics & beyond

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers--Language.

Teenagers.

Discourse analysis.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

vi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 2009.

Contents:

Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective: introduction / Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen

On young women's prosodic construction of identity: evidence from Greek conversational narratives / Argiris Archakis and Dimitris Papazachariou

Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: identity construction among German teenage girls / Janet Spreckels

Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context / Vally Lytra and Taşkin Baraç

Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: some intensifiers / Juan A. Martínez López

En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language / Annette Myre Jørgensen

A theoretical outline for comparative research on youth language: with an outline of diatopic-contrast research within the Hispanic world / Klaus Zimmermann

Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway / Anna-Brita Stenström

Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents / Eli-Marie Drange

Similarities and differences between slang in Kaunas and London teenagers' speech / Jolanta Legaudaite.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789027254290

902725429X

OCLC:

298184180