Slang

 

The link below is a list of the common slang words used by the teenagers of 2015. Slang is more so used when speaking although many of teenagers text,tweet, etc. some slang words in their sentences. Some would argue that the slang of today is ruining our English language but others would argue that teenagers are just being creative and would say its a way for teenagers to communicate with each other without others understanding them.
http://www.timwoods.org/the-london-slang-dictionary-project/

Professor David Crystal, one of the world's leading linguistic experts, challenges the myth that new communication technologies are destroying language.

 Transcript of Speech

A conversation in a classroom between 3 people, Shae-17 from Barton Hill, Kirsty-16-from Stockwood and Lewis-16 from Hanham

Adjacency pairs

Chaining

Quantity- too little

Quality

Relevance – side sequence

Manner – not clear

Prosodic feature

A: How has your day been so far?

B: Ah it’s been good thanks, um not much has happened, im extremely very tired though

A: Early morning?

B: Yeah, how was yours?

A: Just tired

C: I nearly went to hospital

B: (Laugh)

C: Cycling in, nearly crashed into a pillar

B: (Laugh)

A: What time have you been up since?

B: Half six

C: Half seven

B: How? How did you get up that late?

C: I leave the house at five past eight

B: (Laugh)

A: So do I actually, I leave the house at twenty past eight

C: So I have half an hour

B: I have to get up at half six, otherwise I’ll be there till eight like aaah

A: Do you live far?

B: It’s not really far

A: You?

C: Twenty minute cycle, not far

A: Half an hour bus drive

B: If I walk in it will take me like forty-five minutes, (sigh) and what are you two up to tonight?

A: Um house, tidying the house

B: I need to do that actually (laugh), its like a mess everywhere

A: My mums given me loads of jobs, so

B: Yeah

A: That’s me, you?

C: Playing FIFA probably

A: The new one?

B: (Laugh)

 C: Yeah, I bought it last night, straight to ASDA to buy it

A: Was there a line?

C: What’s that? Oh yeah

A: Like a queue

C: Like five people or so, quite quick

A: That’s alright then

  

The quantity of this conversation wasn’t too much or too little, it was just right for our conversation. The quality of our conversation was okay, I don’t think we lied or over exaggerated but I do think we could have been more open optimistic or casual with our answers. The relevance of our conversation was very on topic to our questions although C did go on a side sequence when speaking about how he gets to college. The manner of our conversation was very clear; we hardly spoke in slang although there were a couple filler in our sentences. There wasn’t really any pauses but B did nervously laugh  a few times which could indicate shyness or embarrassment.

Steven Pinker - Language as a window into human nature



https://www.thersa.org/discover/videos/rsa-animate/2011/02/rsa-animate---language-as-a-window-into-human-nature/

Steven pinker - What our language habits reveal.


https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought

FPA

1. http://www.stylist.co.uk/people/teenage-diaries

Form - Diary entry
Purpose- Reviewing the day/feelings
Audience- The writer themself.


2.  http://www.nme.com/reviews/fka-twigs/16215

Form-Album review
Purpose- Reviewing/promoting a singer's album
Audience- Music lovers/Fka-twigs fans

3. http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Talking-Heads-Comments-GCSEs-badly-timed/story-27800823-detail/story.html

Form- News report
Purpose- Discussing gcse's and the importance of them.
Audience-Bristol post readers/people interested in education

4. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/EastEnders-5015pps.pdf

Form - Eastenders transcript
Purpose- Entertainment
Audience- Eastender's viewers.

Frameworks/Language levels


Lexis - Word choice. Meaning at word and phrase level.

Grammar - How the language is built i.e the structure and rules which underpin how we form sentences.

Phonology - How we organise the sounds of our language to produce certain effects including rhythm, rhyme, intonation, stress, pauses, etc.

Pragmatics - How we know what language means when it is used in a specific context, sometimes described as 'reading between the lines.'
Example -
Speaker: 'What time do you call this?'

Listener interprets it as 'Why are you so late?' and knows it is not appropriate to reply with the literal time.

Discourse -1. How longer stretches of text are organised(Cohesion - how it holds together)
2. The way the texts create identities for particular individuals, groups or institutions,

Graphology - How the design of a text can contribute to meaning including use of fonts, graphics, colours, etc.

Register - How language varies in relation to audience, purpose and context e.g. a formal letter uses a different register to one written to a friend.

Mode - How language may vary according to the channel of communication(speech, writing and mixed modes) e.g. how you should write something down as a message would be different from how you would pass it on orally.

Idiolect - The unique way one person expresses themselves due to their personality, belief systems, social experience, etc.

Sociolect - The way of expressing themselves that a social group have in common e.g. we could generalise the way teenagers speak, aristocrats speak, students speak, etc.

Dialect - The variation in word choice and grammatical structure due to where someone lives e.g. "cheers drive" is a Bristolian saying, as is the grammatical structure "where she to?"