Teenage Talk

This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk.

"Stenström's Teenage Talk provides a useful and well-exemplified insight into the under-researched and somewhat neglected area of teenage talk. It provides a concise introduction to some general characteristics of teenage talk, which also makes the topic accessible for novices in the field." - Linguist List

Autorentext

Anna-Brita Stenström is a Professor Emerita of Foreign Languages at Bergen University, Norway. She has initiated three online corpora of teenage talk in English, Nordic and Spanish. Her publications include An Introduction to Spoken Interaction and Trends in Teenage Talk (co-authored).

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Teenage Talk in General 3. Teenage Language = Bad Language? 4. Pragmatic Markers in the Corpora 5. Background 6. How the Pragmatic Markers are Used 7. Summing Up the Three Levels 8. The Sociolinguisitc Aspect 9. Recent Tendencies in London Teenage Talk