Check This One out: Analyzing Slang Usage among Iranian Male and Female Teenagers

Shahraki, Sara Hashemi; Rasekh, Abbass Eslami

doi:10.5539/elt.v4n2p198

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“…Based on the research result, male and female students used slang language in different ways and also frequency. Similarly, according to Shahraki & Rakesh [6], males used slang words and expressions more than females. By using these expressions, males could display their toughness, representing their masculinity society; in contrast, females usually were more cautions than males in their choices of styles.…”

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Insights Into English Major Students’ Competence of Using Colloquialism in Communication

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Phượng³

2021

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Nghiên cứu được tiến hành với mục đích đánh giá tần suất và năng lực sử dụng ngôn ngữ thông tục trong các tiết học nói của sinh viên chuyên ngành ngôn ngữ Anh tại Trường Ngoại ngữ - Đại học Thái Nguyên. Nghiên cứu có sự tham gia của các sinh viên năm cuối tại Trường Ngoại ngữ. Những công cụ khảo sát trong nghiên cứu bao gồm phiếu điều tra và bản ghi chép phỏng vấn. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy những đặc điểm chính của ngôn ngữ nói thông tục được sử dụng bởi đối tượng nghiên cứu với tần suất rất khiêm tốn. Điều này có thể nói lên một thực tế là các bạn sinh viên đang còn khá hạn chế trong việc sử dụng ngôn ngữ thông tục vào quá trình giao tiếp. Yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến sự thụ đắc về tiếng Anh thông tục này đến từ cả hai phía: người học và người dạy. Từ đó, những hoạt động dạy và học kỹ năng sử dụng ngôn ngữ thông tục được đề xuất ở phần cuối của nghiên cứu.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Insights Into English Major Students’ Competence of Using Colloquialism in Communication

Hà¹,

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Phượng³

2021

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“…This implies that new slang springs to life due to the creation of neologisms, meaning extensions of already existing words, compounds, acronym, clipping, back-formation, abbreviation, blends, etc. (Eble 1996, Shahraki, Rasekh 2011, Coleman 2012.…”

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The Anti-language in the English as a Foreign Language Curriculum

Neshkovska

2020

RePhi

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The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the significance of slang in educating well-rounded EFL learners. The study, first, uncovers the most salient features of slang, distinguishing it from jargon, argot, cant, etc. It also discusses the reasons why slang springs to life; the users of slang and functions it performs, as well as the word-formation processes employed in its creation.The paper further investigates the familiarity of Macedonian undergraduate students of English with currently relevant English and American slang, the main hypothesis being that they lack knowledge of slang due to insufficient exposure and instruction. The instruments used are a questionnaire and a quiz comprising 60 slang terms, intended to inspect informants' knowledge of slang.The results obtained from this research confirm that slang is disregarded in EFL acquisition, and that no steady progress is made in the students' knowledge of slang in the course of their university studies.

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“…Studies on the origin of slanguage posits that slangs dates back to the second half of the century when slang was seen as youth language and the research focus was on the vocabulary and grammatical features that evolve from its use (Shahraki and Rasekh: 2011). These features were considered in Edward's study as non-standard occasioned by linguistic carelessness and laziness (Edward: 1979).…”

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“…Studies have also shown that slanguage is not gender specific as it is favoured by both males and females and identifiable with different social groups (Shahraki and Rasekh, 2011). Aside group inclusion, a motivational factor for slanguage is also to exclude outsiders.…”

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Slangs as Registers: A study of Academic Slang Register use by Undergraduates

Robbin

2020

IJLLT

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An extensive body of studies exist on the origin, occurrence, classification, functions as well linguistics and morphological properties of slangs. The focus of this study however is to justify slanguage as a variety of register using Mattiello’s (2008) sociological properties of slangs. This is premised on the fact that slangs can be categorized by its nature and function which can be either speaker or hearer-oriented depending on the activity engaged in. This study therefore reviewed undergraduates’ slangs used to describe academic activities. That is, academic slang register, the motivations for its use and generate a corpus of academic slang register used by undergraduates.The study adopted a quantitative and descriptive research design using a self- designed online questionnaire titled Survey on Academic Slang Register Use by Undergraduates (SASRU) which sought information on the age, institution, slang use, list of academic slang register as well as motivation of use of slangs from 230 undergraduates. Respondents were drawn from 8 higher institutions comprising of 5 federal and 2 private universities, as well as 1 federal college of technology. The data was thereafter subjected to statistical and descriptive analysis. Findings reveal that slanguage is a regular occurrence among undergraduates while engaging in academic activity generating a corpus of academic slang register grouped under academic ability, study habit, study techniques, examination malpractice, absenteeism, enrolment status, moral conduct and other daily in and out of class activities. The motivation for academic slang register amongst undergraduates were found to be social media influence, to generate a sense of comradeship with fellow students and exclude non-students or lecturers. Slanguage is also found to be used in and attempt appeal to emotions, achieve brevity and as a result of youthful exuberance. It is recommended that further studies should document slanguage registers of other student activities ranging from friendship, romance and life style generating a corpus of slanguage registers for these activities. An extensive body of studies exist on the origin, occurrence, classification, functions as well linguistics and morphological properties of slangs. The focus of this study however is to justify slanguage as a variety of register using Mattiello’s (2008) sociological properties of slangs. This is premised on the fact that slangs can be categorized by its nature and function which can be either speaker or hearer-oriented depending on the activity engaged in. This study therefore reviewed undergraduates’ slangs used to describe academic activities. That is, academic slang register, the motivations for its use and generate a corpus of academic slang register used by undergraduates.The study adopted a quantitative and descriptive research design using a self- designed online questionnaire titled Survey on Academic Slang Register Use by Undergraduates (SASRU) which sought information on the age, institution, slang use, list of academic slang register as well as motivation of use of slangs from 230 undergraduates. Respondents were drawn from 8 higher institutions comprising of 5 federal and 2 private universities, as well as 1 federal college of technology. The data was thereafter subjected to statistical and descriptive analysis. Findings reveal that slanguage is a regular occurrence among undergraduates while engaging in academic activity generating a corpus of academic slang register grouped under academic ability, study habit, study techniques, examination malpractice, absenteeism, enrolment status, moral conduct and other daily in and out of class activities. The motivation for academic slang register amongst undergraduates were found to be social media influence, to generate a sense of comradeship with fellow students and exclude non-students or lecturers. Slanguage is also found to be used in and attempt appeal to emotions, achieve brevity and as a result of youthful exuberance. It is recommended that further studies should document slanguage registers of other student activities ranging from friendship, romance and life style generating a corpus of slanguage registers for these activities.

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Check This One out: Analyzing Slang Usage among Iranian Male and Female Teenagers

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Insights Into English Major Students’ Competence of Using Colloquialism in Communication

Insights Into English Major Students’ Competence of Using Colloquialism in Communication

The Anti-language in the English as a Foreign Language Curriculum

Slangs as Registers: A study of Academic Slang Register use by Undergraduates

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