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Language and Age (teenspeak (some examples of teenspeak (bare, beef, peng,…
Language and Age
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Gary Ives asked 63 teens whether age was an impact on language use, 100% said yes.
there was a general assumption that as we got older, our language use would become more standard, and even posh.
Penelope Eckert argues that there are different ways of defining age, therefore discussions about language and age are difficult to have.
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Jenny Cheshire: 'it is becoming recognised... that adult language, as well as child language, develops in response to important life events that affect the social relations and social attitudes of individuals'
Theorists
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Unni Berland 1997 - use of tags 'innit', 'yeah', 'right'
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