ADOLESCENT LANGUAGE

[Dan I. SLOBIN]

Annette,
	Suzanne Romaine talks a lot about peer group sociology, but this
does not actually explain the FORMS of adolescent language.  Of course,
there are many, many examples of forms that are used (in various English
dialects and other languages).  Just what are you looking for?  Do you
know Suzanne?  It could be useful to talk to her.  There's a lot about
age-grading, male/female language, home/school...  She covers phonology,
morphology, and syntax.  But the book is mainly a compendium of examples,
with discussion of theories that were popular 15 years ago or more.
She's especially stimulated by Labov's studies of urban dialects.

-Dan

On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Annette Karmiloff-Smith wrote:

> DAN - DOES IT INCLUDE ANY EXPLANATIONS AS TO *WHY* ADOLESCENT LANGUAGE
> TENDS TO TAKE THE FORMS IT DOES?
> Annette
>
> At 12:03 20/8/99, Dan I. SLOBIN wrote:
> >An important book on this topic is Suzanne Romaine's _The language of
> >children and adolescents: The acquisition of communicative competence_
> >(Blackwell, 1984).
> >
> >-Dan Slobin
>
>