Teenage labelling: "Are you a jock or a freak?"

Bowes, Janet P

Teenage labelling: "Are you a jock or a freak?"

dc.contributor.author	Bowes, Janet P
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-15T20:31:56Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-15T20:31:56Z
dc.date.issued	1983-06
dc.description.abstract	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.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Bowes, J. P. (1983). Teenage labelling: "Are you a jock or a freak?". Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 9(Summer), 7-16.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/29041
dc.identifier.issn	2371-2643
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51317
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.publisher.department	Linguistics	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.subject	Linguistics	en_US
dc.subject	Sociolinguistics	en_US
dc.subject	Ethnology	en_US
dc.title	Teenage labelling: "Are you a jock or a freak?"	en_US
dc.type	journal article