Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 What's all the fuss about teen language?
- 2 Teens talking
- 3 Methods: how to tap teen language?
- 4 Quotatives: I'm like,“Oh my God!”
- 5 Intensifiers: upping the ante – super cool!
- 6 How do you start a sentence?
- 7 Sentence enders: finish with a flourish
- 8 Generics: stuffology
- 9 Just: just what?
- 10 Adjectives: the good, bad, and lovely
- 11 Other funky teenage features: You know what? I dunno. Whatever!
- 12 Internet language: everyone's online
- 13 Are they always going to talk like that?
- Notes
- References
- Author index
- Keyword index
8 - Generics: stuffology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2016
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 What's all the fuss about teen language?
- 2 Teens talking
- 3 Methods: how to tap teen language?
- 4 Quotatives: I'm like,“Oh my God!”
- 5 Intensifiers: upping the ante – super cool!
- 6 How do you start a sentence?
- 7 Sentence enders: finish with a flourish
- 8 Generics: stuffology
- 9 Just: just what?
- 10 Adjectives: the good, bad, and lovely
- 11 Other funky teenage features: You know what? I dunno. Whatever!
- 12 Internet language: everyone's online
- 13 Are they always going to talk like that?
- Notes
- References
- Author index
- Keyword index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Teen TalkThe Language of Adolescents, pp. 140 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016