The study combines linguistic and socio psychological research results to show that the widespread conviction that juvenile sociolects serve to assure group integrity against outsiders is only true to a certain degree Youth jargon fulfills a number of different functions The study commences by examining dialogues between young people and adults to illustrate the theoretical issues addressed by a concern with the functional aspect of language Subsequently the use of juvenile sociolects by young people in verbal exchanges with adults is subjected to a number of systematic empirical analyses Finally an analysis of youth jargon sociolectal features adopted and emulated by adults provides insight into a field hitherto unexplored attempted imitation by outsiders

Funktionen von Jugendsprache: Studien zu verschiedenen Gesprachstypen des Dialogs Jugendlicher mit Erwachsenen PDF

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