Trends in teenage talk : corpus compilation, analysis, and findings / Anna-Brita Stenstrom, Gisle Andersen, Ingrid Kristine Hasund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stenström, Anna-Brita, 1932-

Contributor:

Andersen, Gisle.

Hasund, Ingrid Kristine.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 8.

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--England--London--Language.

Youth.

Sociolinguistics--England--London.

Sociolinguistics.

English language--Slang.

English language.

Physical Description:

xi, 228 p. : ill., map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Teenage talk is fascinating, though so far teenage language has not been given the attention in linguistic research that it merits. The dearth of investigations into teenage language is due in part to under representation in language corpora. With the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) a large corpus of teenage language has become available for research. The first part of Trends in Teenage Talk gives a description how the COLT corpus was collected and processed; the speakers are presented with special emphasis on the recruits and their various backgrounds; ending with a description what the COLT teenagers talk about and how they do it. The second part of the book is devoted to the most prominent features of the teenagers' talk: 'slanguage'; how reported speech is manifested; a survey of non-standard grammatical features; the use of intensifiers; tags; and interactional behaviour in terms of conflict talk.

Contents:

Trends in Teenage Talk

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: From tape to CD-ROM

Chapter 2: The speakers

Chapter 3: The conversations

Chapter 4: Slanguage

Chapter 5: Variation in the use of reported speech

Chapter 6: Non-standard grammar and the trendy use of intensifiers

Chapter 7: Teenagers' use of tags

Chapter 8: Ritual conflict

Chapter 9: Conclusion

References

Appendix

Index

Studies in Corpus Linguistics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220) and index.

ISBN:

9786612161827

9781282161825

1282161822

9789027297334

9027297339

OCLC:

70767425