Age

• Deklerk


  Teenagers have linguistic freedom to adopt and change language norms + rules
• zimmerman 


  Teen speak influenced by: media, music and internet
• Eckhert 


  forms of age:

  • chronological - how long someone has lived
  • social - how someone interacts socially depending on their age
  • biological - how someone physically presents themselves
• Eckhert 


  teenspeak distances teens from adults + defines teen
• Parrott


  teenage identity is characterised by:

  • rebellion
  • forbidden behaviour
  • exclusion
• Strenstram 


  teen speak

  • slang
  • expletives
  • contractions
  • name calling
  • insults battling
  • clipped + compounded words
• Eckhert : Jocks and Burnouts study

  • jocks highly engaged in school
  • Burnouts less interested + engaged in immoral activities (drinking, smoking, cutting class)
  • jocks used predominately standard form
  • Burnouts used predominately non standard forms