| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 8
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Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 : From tape to CD-ROM -- 1.1 Getting teenage talk on tape 3 -- 1.2 Transcription 7 -- 1.3 Tagging 10 -- 1.4 CD-ROM production 11 -- CHAPTER 2 : The speakers 13 -- 2.1 Social differences: Do the teenagers care? 13 -- 2.2 Social background: What does the corpus tell us? 18 -- 2.2.1 Age and gender 19 -- 2.2.2 Borough of residence and social class 20 -- 2.2.3 Ethnicity 21 -- 2.3 The recruits and the boroughs 23 -- 2.3.1 Hackney 23 -- 2.3.2 Tower Hamlets 25 -- 2.3.3 Camden 25 -- 2.3.4 Barnet 26 -- 2.3.5 Hertfordshire 26 -- CHAPTER 3 : The conversations 27 -- 3.1 The teenagers and their peers 28 -- 3.1.1 Introduction 28 -- 3.1.2 Social networking 29 -- 3.1.3 Romance 32 -- 3.1.4 Sex talk 38 -- 3.1.5 Partying and drinking 41 -- 3.1.6 The body 43 -- 3.1.7 Pastimes and hobbies 46 -- 3.1.8 'Bad' things 50 -- 3.1.9 Race relations 52 -- 3.1.10 School 53 -- 3.2 School talk 55 -- 3.2.1 Teacher-student interaction 55 -- 3.2.2 Classroom chat 56 -- 3.3 Family talk 57 -- 3.3.1 Introduction 57 -- 3.3.2 How they talk at home 58 -- 3.3.3 The generation gap 60 -- 3.4 Summing up 61 -- CHAPTER 4 : Slanguage 63 -- 4.1 Slang 67 -- 4.1.1 General 67 -- 4.1.2 Slang in COLT 68 -- 4.2 Swearing 76 -- 4.2.1 Swearing in COLT 78 -- 4.3 Vague words 86 -- 4.3.1 General 86 -- 4.3.2 Vague words in COLT 88 -- 4.3.3 Placeholders 94 -- 4.3.4 Set markers 99 -- 4.4 Summing up 105 -- CHAPTER 5 : Variation in the use of reported speech 107 -- 5.1 Markers of reported speech 108 -- 5.2 Mimickry and zero-quotations nlo -- 5.3 The quotative marker (BE) like 115 -- 5.4 Reporting verbs: GO VSSAY 118 -- 5.4.1 Are GO and SAY equivalent? Grammatical differences 119 -- 5.4.2 Variation in tense, aspect and standardness 121 -- 5.4.3 Correlation with mimickry and sound effects 123 -- 5.4.4 Social parameters 125 -- 5.4.5 Another related use of GO 128 -- CHAPTER 6 : Non-standard grammar and the trendy use of intensifiers 131 -- 6.1 Non-standard grammatical features 131 -- 6.1.1 The Reading and London teenage vernaculars compared 133 -- 6.1.2 Two socio-economic groups compared 135 -- 6.2 On the trendy use of intensifiers 139 -- 6.2.1 Teenagers, adults and intensifiers 141 -- 6.2.2 Girls, boys and intensifiers 142 -- 6.2.3 Some 'teenage-specific' intensifiers 144 -- 6.3 Summing up 161 -- CHAPTER 7 : Teenagers' use of tags 165 -- 7.1 Why tags? 167 -- 7.1.1 Functional plethora: The innit story 167 -- 7.1.2 The use of yeah as a tag 172 -- 7.1.3 The use of eh as a tag 176 -- 7.1.4 The use of okay as a tag 178 -- 7.1.5 The use of right as a tag 180 -- 7.1.6 Survey of invariant tags and their associated functions 183 -- 7.2 The distribution of tags in COLT 184 -- 7.2.1 Age 185 -- 7.2.2 Gender 187 -- 7.2.3 Social class 188 -- 7.2.4 Ethnicity 189 -- 7.2.5 Location 190 -- 7.3 Summing up 191 -- CHAPTER 8 : Ritual conflict 193 -- 8.1 Gender, class and race 195 -- 8.2 Data and methodology 197 -- 8.2.1 Mitigating strategies 198 -- 8.2.2 Aggravating strategies 199 -- 8.3 Ritual conflict in COLT 200 -- 8.3.1 Tough girls' talk 200 -- 8.3.2 Sex talk and communicating norms 205 -- 8.4 Summing up 208 -- CHAPTER 9 -- Conclusion 211. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Youth -- England -- London -- Language.
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Youth. |
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England -- London. |
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Sociolinguistics -- England -- London.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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English language -- Slang.
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English language -- Slang. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Youth. |
| Added Author |
Andersen, Gisle.
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Hasund, Ingrid Kristine.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stenström, Anna-Brita, 1932- Trends in teenage talk. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2002 (DLC) 2002074754 |
| ISBN |
9789027297334 (electronic book) |
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9027297339 (electronic book) |
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9789027222787 |
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9027222789 |
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9027222789 (Eur. ; alkaline paper) |
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1588112527 (US hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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