Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)

The first part gives a description how the COLT(Corpus of London Teenage Language) corpus was collected and processed; the speakers are presented with special emphasis on the recruits and their various backgrounds; ending with a description what the COLT teenagers talk about and how they do it. The second part is devoted to the most prominent features of the teenagers' talk; 'slanguage'; how reported speech is manifested; a survey of non-standard grammatical features; the use of intensifiers; tags; and interactional behaviour in terms of conflict talk.Dr. Gisle Andersen is the author of 'Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)', published 2002 under ISBN 9781588112521 and ISBN 1588112527.