Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)

Hardcover, vi + 206 pages, NOT ex-library. Some cosmetic damage on the rear board. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective explores the rich and diverse world of youth language across different languages and cultural contexts, providing a comprehensive analysis of how young people express themselves linguistically. The book delves into various aspects of youngspeak, such as its relationship with identity, group dynamics, and social interaction, emphasizing the creative and innovative ways in which young people use language. It addresses both spoken and written communication, focusing on how informal language is shaped by peer groups, social media, and global trends. Through case studies from different linguistic communities, the contributors analyze the influence of multilingualism on youth language, exploring how young speakers navigate between different languages and dialects, as well as how they employ code-switching, slang, and borrowed expressions. The book highlights the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in youth language practices, offering insights into the socio-pragmatic aspects of communication among young people. Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective is essential reading for scholars in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and those interested in the evolving linguistic patterns of the younger generation. -- Contents: Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective: Introduction / Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen; Part 1. Identity Construction: -- On Young Women's Prosodic Construction of Identity: Evidence from Greek Conversational Narratives / Argiris Archakis and Dimitris Papazachariou; Now He Thinks He's Listening to Rock Music: Identity Construction Among German Teenage Girls / Janet Spreckels; Multilingual Practices and Identity Negotiations Among Turkish-speaking Young People in a Diasporic Context / Vally Lytra and Taskin Barac // Part 2. Particular Expressions: -- Lexical Innovations in Madrid's Teenage Talk: Some Intensifiers / Juan A. Martínez López; En Plan Used as a Hedge in Spanish Teenage Language / Annette Myre Jørgensen // Part 3. Languages in Contrast: -- A Theoretical Outline for Comparative Research on Youth Language: With an Outline of Diatopic-Contrast Research Within the Hispanic World / Klaus Zimmermann; Pragmatic Markers in Contrast: Spanish Pues Nada and English Anyway / Anna-Brita Stenström; Anglicisms in the Informal Speech of Norwegian and Chilean Adolescents / Eli-Marie Drange; Similarities and Differences Between Slang in Kaunas and London Teenagers' Speech / Jolanta Legaudaite; Author Index; Subject Index -- Despite its potential influence on the standard language, there is still relatively little written about the language of the young. This book gives new insight into some important areas of their language, such as identity construction reflected, for instance, in prosodic patterns and language choice, the use of discourse markers and slang in a contrastive perspective, the pragmatics of fixed expressions and the impact of English on the teenage vernacular. Most of the articles are corpus-based, and all represent naturally occurring spontaneous conversation.…