Chapter 1. Age and language studies

Duszak, Anna; Okulska, Urszula

doi:10.1515/9783110238112.1.3

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“…In sociolinguistic studies, there are many terms used by researchers to describe age. According to Duszak and Okulska (2011), "people have "age", measured in years of their lifetimes or chronology of birth," (p. 3). Chambers (1995) Chambers (1995) explains that "childhood is marked by superficial androgyny with boys and girls similar in height, weight, musculature, and other physical characteristics", adolescence is "when the most visible sex differences emerge'', early adulthood can be depicted as "the idealized 25-year-old -wrinkle-free, clear-eyed, slimwaisted -[which] is held up as a paragon by the clothing, dietary and cosmetics industries", middle age "brings wrinkling skin, weight re-apportionments in chest and abdomen, greying hair and, for men, receding hairlines", and old age "consummates the gradations begun in middle age...and carries additional markers of its own: decreasing size partly from stooped skeletal features and partly from metabolic reversal (catabolism), receding gums making people "long in the tooth", and slowing of gait, coordination and reflexes" (p.147-148).…”

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“…Age-related studies in sociolinguistic field are usually related to language change which can be conducted according to apparent time or real time (Chambers, 1995;Eckert, 1997;Llamas, Mullany, & Stockwell, 2007;Murphy, 2010;Duszak & Okulska, 2011). Bowie (2011) states "the relationship between aging and sociolinguistic variation has not often been studied directly" (p. 29).…”

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Language Variation According to Age: Football Talk

Abdullah¹,

Safrudin²,

Taib³

et al. 2018

IJARBSS

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There are not many sociolinguistics studies in Malaysia that focused on age as a factor in language variations. To add to the literature in sociolinguistics field, this study will compare and discuss the language use between two age groups of university students by looking at the similar and different linguistic features. The respondents were three male students aged 19 years old and three male students aged 25 years old who were studying in the same institution. The instrument was a set of questions that was used to interview the respondents on a topic which they favoured the most, football. The interviews were then transcribed and analyzed for the emerging patterns. It was found that the younger students made more grammatical errors and included more fillers than the older ones. Other than that, the juniors made more repetitions of words compared to the seniors who made more repetitions of phrases. In term of vocabulary, both groups used a lot of adjectives and registers in their speeches at almost the same frequency. The juniors, however, tend to use swear word in their speeches compared to the seniors who did not use swear word at all. It can be concluded from the findings that junior students committed more errors than senior students as there were differences in terms of grammatical errors, fillers and repetition made by the two different age groups.

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