1
Q
Gary Ives: West Yorkshire study
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- 2014
- 63 teenagers asked if people speak differently depending on their age and 100% said yes
2
Q
Anna-Brita Stenstrom
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- 2011
- trends in teen talk in London
identified: - word shortening
- verbal dueling
- slang
- taboo
- multicultural language mixing
- indistinct articulation
3
Q
Ignoacio Palacios Martinez
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- 2011
- teenagers use negatives more frequently than adults do
- teens tend to be much more direct when they speak
- adults more conscious of what they say and how they say it
4
Q
Unni Berland
A
- 1997
- social class is a big factor in teen speech
- ‘innit’ more common in working class
5
Q
Penelope Eckert
A
- 2003
- slang used to establish a connection to youth culture and achieve covert prestige
- also said there are different ways to define age: chronological age, biological age (maturity) and social age (stages of life e.g marriage, children etc)
6
Q
Jenny Cheshire
A
- 1987
- language develops in response to important life events that affect the social relations/attitudes of individuals
7
Q
Vivian De Klerk
A
- 2005
- young people have the freedom to challenge linguistic norms
- they seek to establish new identities
- the speech patterns of adults are slowly eroded by the patterns of speech of young people
8
Q
Gary Ives: effect of technology
A
- says as the internet and social media becomes more accessible to young children and adults, common technological changes made by teenagers to language are being used by those other groups e.g. emoticons, initialisms, therefore they become less popular and uncool to teenagers and they begin to stop using it
9
Q
Christopher Odato
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- researched teenagers use of ‘like’
- children as young as 4 using it
- suggests children copy the use of those older than them in their use of ‘like’ as a discourse marker
10
Q
John Bald
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- teen language is part of a wide anti-school culture
- stated their is a culture among teenagers of stripping away verbiage in language
11
Q
Daily Mail 2020
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suggested that there has been a drop from 4,000 to 800 works in the working vocabulary of teenagers
11
Q
Daily Mail 2020
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suggested that there has been a drop from 4,000 to 800 works in the working vocabulary of teenagers
