LIN 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Outasight, Douche, Gaydar
12 May 2016
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--the endless policing of [young] women"s language (deborah cameron) The wat in which treaties were disrespected and international arbitration was ignored was deeply concerning (john bew, new statesman, sept. 11, 2015) From a recent study of adjective use by sali tagliamonte and katharina pabst (cool, great, awesome) Factors contributing to the historical rise of youth culture: growing enrollments in high school and college, economic and social condition conducive to delaying adulthood and rebelling in various ways, new media and marketing. Relevance of youth culture for language variation and change. Grammatical and lexical innovations introduced by young people in one place can now spread rapidly and become established (inter)nationally within a few years (like, dude, so ) Some linguistic innovations are associated with young people in general. Others are strongly associated with a particular youth subculture: hippies, punks, goths, surfers, valley girls, hiphop, nerd, geeks, hipsters, emo . Some english words that originated in student language.
