Adolescents’ lexical repertoires of peer evaluation: Boring prats and English snobs

Garrett, Peter; Coupland, Nikolas; Williams, Angie

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“…Notwithstanding this, people’s beliefs about language and communication do serve to guide their practices (Giles, Coupland, & Wiemann, 1992) and are important for a “theory of human cultural development” (Garrett, Coupland, & Williams, 2004, p. 194). Studies of folk linguistic and metalanguistic comments offer insights into the ways people value language and communication and how they view its role in their lives.…”

Section: Folk Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysismentioning

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From Statistical Panic to Moral Panic: The Metadiscursive Construction and Popular Exaggeration of New Media Language in the Print Media

Thurlow

2006

J Comp Mediated Comm

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As a way of tracking popular framing of CMC, this article critically reviews an international corpus of 101 print-media accounts (from 2001 to 2005) of language-use in technologies such as instant messaging and text messaging. From the combined perspective of folk linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this type of metadiscourse (i.e., discourse about discourse) reveals the conceptual and ideological assumptions by which particular communication practices come to be institutionalized and understood. The article is illustrated with multiple examples from across the corpus in order to demonstrate the most recurrent metadiscursive themes in mediatized depictions of technologically or computer-mediated discourse (CMD). Rooted in extravagant characterizations of the prevalence and impact of CMD, together with highly caricatured exemplifications of actual practice, these popular but influential (mis)representations typically exaggerate the difference between CMD and nonmediated discourse, misconstrue the ''evolutionary'' trajectory of language change, and belie the cultural embeddedness of CMD.

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Section: Folk Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

From Statistical Panic to Moral Panic: The Metadiscursive Construction and Popular Exaggeration of New Media Language in the Print Media

Thurlow

2006

J Comp Mediated Comm

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“…The study of folk perceptions has been conducted in a range of fi elds. In sociolinguistics, for example, the analysis of folk -linguistic data has allowed signifi cant insights into how people perceive and how they stereotypically evaluate language variation; and it has added to our understanding of, for example, the various social and cultural forces promoting and resisting language maintenance, change, decay, or revival (see Preston 1996 ;Williams et al 1996 ;Niedzielski and Preston 2000 ;Garrett et al 2003Garrett et al , 2004. Various techniques are employed, depending in part upon research questions and disciplines.…”

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“…In previous work it has been more illuminating to regard this kind of data as a sort of " discursive shorthand " (Garrett et al 2003(Garrett et al , 2004(Garrett et al , 2005a(Garrett et al , 2005bWilliams et al 1996 ) and to retain some of its qualitative value, rather than to prioritize data reduction for statistical analysis. To this end, procedures of content analysis (see Krippendorf 2004 ) were employed to organize the data into groupings.…”

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Meanings of ‘Globalization’: East and West

Garrett¹

2010

The Handbook of Language and Globalization

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“…The teenage years are a time when questions of identity and social roles assume tremendous importance (de Klerk & Bosch, 1996;Erikson, 1968;Marcia, 1980). As they move from primary to secondary school, adolescents are involved in the process of exploring their available identity options and become highly focused on identity formation in relation to their peers (Garrett, Coupland, & Williams, 2004;Heaven, 1994;Waterman, 1982). Language and communication are an important aspect of this process.…”

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What their friends say about the way they talk: the metalanguage of pre-adolescent and adolescent Australians

2015

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Adolescence is a time in young people's lives when identities are being constructed and what their friends say is particularly important. The teenage years are a critical period in terms of attitudes to language, yet there have been relatively few studies of student metalanguage and, to our knowledge, no studies which have considered agegraded differences in adolescence. This paper focuses on comments from Australian students in their initial and final years of high school about what their friends say about the way they talk. The findings, based on the written responses of 642 students to two questionnaire items, show that although there are common themes in the senior and junior students' discourse, seniors are more likely to report that they choose their friends on the basis of the way they talk and to report that they remember their friends commenting on their speech. They are also more likely to provide detailed comment about social and regional variation. We conclude that written survey data hold explanatory power, enabling useful insights into Australian adolescent metalinguistic awareness and providing a window on ideologies and perceived identity.

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Adolescents’ lexical repertoires of peer evaluation: Boring prats and English snobs

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

From Statistical Panic to Moral Panic: The Metadiscursive Construction and Popular Exaggeration of New Media Language in the Print Media

From Statistical Panic to Moral Panic: The Metadiscursive Construction and Popular Exaggeration of New Media Language in the Print Media

Meanings of ‘Globalization’: East and West

What their friends say about the way they talk: the metalanguage of pre-adolescent and adolescent Australians

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