Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective
By: edited by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen.
Contributors: Stenström, Anna-Brita, 1932-; Jørgensen, Annette Myre.
Series: Pragmatics & beyond new series -- 0922-842x -- v. 184
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9789027254290
Subjects: Teenagers -- Language; Discourse analysis; Pragmatics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jörgensen; title: Identity construction: On young women's prosodic construction of identity: evidence from Greek conversational narratives / Argiris Archakis and Dimitris Papazachariou; title: Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: identity construction among German teenage girls / Janet Spreckels; title: Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context / Vally Lytra and Taskin Baraç; title: Particular expressions: Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: some intensifiers / Juan A. Martínez López; title: En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language / Annette Myre Jörgensen; title: Languages in contrast: a proposal for comparative research on youth language with an outline of diatopic-contrast research within the Hispanic world / Klaus Zimmermann; title: Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway / Anna-Brita Stenström; title: Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents / Eli-Marie Drange; title: Similarities and differences between slang in Kaunas and London teenagers' speech / Jolanta Legaudaite.