Abstract:This article investigates the linguistic means used by four female highschool students to describe various types of music and focuses on how such descriptions are modified and what music worlds and social identities the girls thus construct. The conversation is pari of a Swedish corpus of informal Interviews with teenagers about music (the GSM corpus). Applying the parameters specific-general, precise-vague, real-hypothetical, and concrete-abstract, the analysis demonstrates that different styles of music gene… Show more
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