Essays about: "Age-grading"

Found 3 essays containing the word Age-grading.

1. 1. Age-graded Variation in Japanese Visual Language : The different morphology of adults’ and children’s manga

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Sixten Linusson; [2021]
   Keywords : Japanese; visual language; visual morphology; morphology; linguistics; age-grading; manga; comics;

   Abstract : Previous studies have shown that not only is there something called visual language through which we understand graphical expressions, but also that each culture has its own visual language. Furthermore, there are variances within these visual languages, denoted by genre, which can be interpreted to be dialects. READ MORE

3. 2. Innovative quotatives - language change or youth-speak? : A corpus-based study of spoken British English

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Esme Richardson-Owen; [2019]
   Keywords : age-grading; generational change; variationist sociolinguistics;

   Abstract : This paper investigates the possible effect of age on quotative variation in spoken British English with focus on the innovative quotative constructions be like and go and the standard construction say. The study is corpus-based and uses the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 as its material. READ MORE

4. 3. Investigating the Yooper Dialect : A Study of the Dialect in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Sara Waernér; [2014]
   Keywords : American; Age-grading; Dialect; English; Ishpeming; Marquette; Michigan; Sociolinguistics; Yooper;

   Abstract : This paper aims to explore the linguistic features of the dialect in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. The study sets out to define what the distinct features of the dialect are, and investigate frequencies among Upper Peninsula natives, specifically from Marquette County. READ MORE