| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond new series,
0922-842X ;
v. 184
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 184.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective : introduction / Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen -- Identity construction. 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 -- Particular expressions. 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 -- Languages in contrast. 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. |
| Summary |
Despite its potential influence on the standard language, there is still relatively little written about the language of the young. This book gives new insight into some important areas of their language, such as identity construction reflected, for instance, in prosodic patterns and language choice, the use of discourse markers and slang in a contrastive perspective, the pragmatics of fixed expressions and the impact of English on the teenage vernacular. Most of the articles are corpus-based, and all represent naturally occurring spontaneous conversation. The book will be of interest to lingu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Teenagers -- Language.
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Teenagers -- Language. |
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Discourse analysis.
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Discourse analysis. |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Stenström, Anna-Brita, 1932-
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Jørgensen, Annette Myre.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 2009 9789027254290 902725429X (DLC) 2008055549 (OCoLC)298184180 |
| ISBN |
9789027290472 (electronic book) |
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9027290474 (electronic book) |
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1282104284 |
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9781282104280 |
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9789027254290 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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902725429X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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