Volume 09, Summer 1983

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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 9, Summer 1983
    (University of Calgary, 1983-06) Pepper, Mary; Phillips, Marilyn; Rowsell, Lorna; Steinbergs, Aleks
    This is the ninth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the Student Linguistics Society at The University of Calgary. These papers represent the current research in progress of students and faculty members and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive. Appearance of papers in this volume does not preclude their publication in another form elsewhere.
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    Teenage labelling: "Are you a jock or a freak?"
    (University of Calgary, 1983-06) Bowes, Janet P
    There are three classes in speech that reveal personal characteristics of the speaker: those that indicate membership in a group, those that characterize the individual and those that reveal changed states of the speaker. In this paper I am dealing with the indicators of group membership, the group markers. A group-marked vocabulary is social, it reflects the members' interests and reinforces group solidarity (Laver & Trudgill, 1976). The subject matter is related to the activities of the group (Browen & Fraxer, 1976). Physical appearance and situation are important factors in determining a person's group membership (Siles, Scherer & Taylor, 1976). The social groups of a high school can be identified by the way their members dress, act and speak. Students wishing to be identified with one of these groups modify their appearance and behaviour to match the target group's norms. The language use that the students adopt is one of the ways they achieve solidarity within the group.