Slang Across Societies is an introductory reference work and textbook which aims to
acquaint readers with key themes in the study of youth, criminal and colloquial language …

This paper investigates the formal and functional variation of the vocative in contemporary
Spanish teenage talk. For this purpose, all vocative occurrences found in conversations …

In recent decades, youth language has become one of the preferred research areas in
sociolinguistics, not only because of its non-normative nature but mostly because it is …

This paper investigates three main strategies used by Spanish teenagers to intensify their
language, namely by suffixation and affixation of the base, and by recurring to the lexical …

This study examines the previously unattained research area of contemporary spoken
Turkish used in dyadic and multi-party interaction among young speakers of Turkish. For this …

En el español hablado, son varias las expresiones vocativas que señalan una relación
afectiva entre los interlocutores. Entre estos llamados vocativos cariñosos se destaca el uso …

In recent decades, youth language has become one of the preferred research areas in
sociolinguistics, not only because of its non-normative nature but mostly because it is …

The discourse particle eh has a high frequency in the Madrid teenage talk. The different
functions this short particle displays in the interaction, as for instance: calling upon the …

A set of phraseological units that convey disagreement in Spanish, English and Norwegian
teenage language are observed from three perspectives in this paper: the phraseological …

The paper examines teenage language and how it expresses itself in unique ways to help
define identities among peer groups. Teenagers challenge linguistic conventions to set …