Area Study 1: Informal Language : Summary List of 2024 Examples
Informal language and identity/personalities
- Informal discourse: spoken non-fluency features and tenor and register: See Q&A transcript 2024
- Informal Discourse: tenor and taboo and exclusive language; swearing
- A Some examples: to illustrate the functions of informal language.
- Also slang and the in-group) in-group membership, intimacy and solidarity
- Identity markers, bloggers and identities (the individual and the group)
- Notes on the Australian vernacular; and “strine” and “slanguage”
- Aboriginal Poetry: informal linguistic features (excerpts of poems by First Nations writers): non-standard syntactic features
Face needs and informal linguistic features
- Informal language and face needs; positive (“the need to be liked, respected and treated as a member of a group”) and negative (“the need to be autonomous and act without imposition from others”)
- Informal language; “slanguage” and “bloody“; swearing patterns, language change and shifting taboos (linguistic innovation and in-group membership)
- Swearing and online trolling ; swearing and hate speech in public places:
- Return to: Contemporary examples 2024 for language variation
- Return to Essays Made Easy: English Language
- Return to Essays Made Easy: English Language
- References to linguists and relevant commentators (which ones?)