Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Language Change Article


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/from-the-mouths-of-teens-422688.html

Summary -

This article illustrates that language is changing rapidly and spreading. It also quotes that 'Those who go into university or highly-paid jobs will change their speech. Those who remain where they are will most likely retain a lot of it', which implies that the area and your surroundings can change the way we talk.
 It explains that adolescence is the stage where we can be heavily influenced, and our whole persona changed, this is because it's the stage where most people try to simply 'fit in'.
 'In the half-century since teenagers first came of socio-cultural age as a distinct demographic, their relationship to the rest of society can be described as a tense stand-off punctuated by howls of hormonal turbulence'. Here the article delves into the emotional side of being a teenager. It describes that we are trying on one face after another, to find a face of our own. In some ways this is true, it's the stage where everyone is trying to figure out who they are.
 Overall this article is getting a point across that language has changed along with social aspects of life, and that for the older generation, learning the new slang isn't easy!

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