The language of British teenagers : a preliminary study of its main grammatical features

dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemágl
dc.contributor.authorPalacios Martínez, Ignacio Miguel
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-20T09:34:38Z
dc.date.available2020-04-20T09:34:38Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe language of teenagers has been the subject of extensive study in recent years due to its highly innovative nature and richness of expression. Most attention has been paid to the phonological and lexico-semantic levels of analysis; grammar and, more particularly, syntax have been addressed less frequently. In this study I focus on some of the most distinctive features of the lexico-grammar of this language, using data mainly from COLT (Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language) and from the SCOSE corpus (Saarbrücken Corpus of Spoken English) plus other supplementary materials. At times, comparisons are made with a comparable sample of adult language extracted from the DCPSE (Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English). The analysis here examines those lexico-grammatical properties which distinguish teenagers’ language from the language of adults. Under discussion will be, among others, the following grammatical features: the verbal and pronoun systems, the use of non-canonical tags, the system of negation, quotatives, the expression of vague language, ways of intensifying language and the use of abuse and insult words as vocatives.gl
dc.description.abstractEl lenguaje de los jóvenes ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios en los últimos años debido a su carácter innovador y riqueza de expresión. La mayoría de estas investigaciones se han centrado en los niveles fonológico y léxico-semántico. Su gramática y, más en particular, su sintaxis han sido estudiadas en menor grado. Este artículo se centra en algunos de los rasgos más característicos de la léxico-gramática de este lenguaje. Para ello se utilizarán datos de los corpus COLT (Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language) y SCOSE (Saarbrücken Corpus of Spoken English), además de otro material complementario. En ocasiones se establecerán contrastes con el lenguaje adulto con datos seleccionados del DCPSE (Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English). Este análisis servirá para examinar aquellos aspectos gramaticales que distinguen al lenguaje de los adolescentes del propio de los adultos. Se estudiarán, entre otros, los siguientes: el sistema verbal y pronominal, las coletillas no canónicas, la polaridad negativa, los verbos citativos, la expresión de la vaguedad, modos de intensificación y el uso de insultos como vocativos.gl
dc.description.peerreviewedSIgl
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research reported in this article was funded by the Galician Ministry of Innovation and Industry (INCITE grant no. 08PXIB204033PRC-TT-206 and HU2006/14-0).gl
dc.identifier.citationMartínez Palacios, I.M. (2011). The language of British teenagers. A preliminary study of its main grammatical Features. "Atlantis", 33(1) 105-126.gl
dc.identifier.essn1989-6840
dc.identifier.issn0210-6124
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10347/21543
dc.language.isoenggl
dc.publisherAsociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)gl
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.atlantisjournal.org/old/ARCHIVE/33.1/2011PalaciosMartinez.pdfgl
dc.rights© The author. This work is under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)gl
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dc.subjectTeenagers’ languagegl
dc.subjectVague languagegl
dc.subjectQuotativesgl
dc.subjectIntensificationgl
dc.subjectNegationgl
dc.subjectNon-canonical tagsgl
dc.subjectLenguaje juvenilgl
dc.subjectVaguedadgl
dc.subjectCitativosgl
dc.subjectIntensificacióngl
dc.subjectNegacióngl
dc.titleThe language of British teenagers : a preliminary study of its main grammatical featuresgl
dc.title.alternativeEl lenguaje de los jóvenes británicos : estudio preliminar de los rasgos gramaticales de mayor relevanciagl
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