LINGUIST List 17.679

Fri Mar 03 2006

Qs: Young People's Varieties; Media Discourse-Spanish

Editor for this issue: James Rider <riderlinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Claire Bowern, Young People's Varieties
        2.    Gonzalo Martínez Camino, Discourse in Spanish-Speaking-World Media

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Message 1: Young People's Varieties
Date: 02-Mar-2006
From: Claire Bowern <bowernrice.edu>
Subject: Young People's Varieties


There are reports for a number of Australian languages (Tiwi, Dyirbal,Gurindji, Warlpiri, Djambarrpuyngu, etc) of intensive aged-based variation- that is, that the speech of young people differs in many respects fromthat of older generations in syntax, morphology and often also lexicon.Some of the differences can be attributed to contact with English (e.g.preference for SVO constituent order over free order) but others can't.

I am looking for references and reports of similar ''young people'svarieties'' from elsewhere in the world.

I will provide a summary of responses.

Thanks in advance,Claire Bowern

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics                             Historical Linguistics                             Sociolinguistics

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Message 2: Discourse in Spanish-Speaking-World Media
Date: 03-Mar-2006
From: Gonzalo Martínez Camino <gonzalo.martinezunican.es>
Subject: Discourse in Spanish-Speaking-World Media


Dear Colleagues:

My name is Gonzalo Martínez Camino. I am a Professor atUniversidad de Cantabria (Spain). Currently, I am working witha group of linguists from different Spanish universities onthe language that is used in the media in the Spanish speakingworld. We are just starting with this project and we want,first of all, to build up our corpus. In order to do that, wehave chosen six countries: Argentine, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador,Mexico, and Spain. We would like to collect the followingtypes of materials:

1) Talk shows where young people appear talking freely and spontaneously (jovenes que hablan espontáneamente).

2) Talk shows where SMS messages are used.

3) TV and radio advertising (primetime).

4) Magazines for young people (revistas especializadas en un público joven).

5) Newspapers and other publications that are distributed to the university community without charge (Prensa universitaria de distribución gratuita)

6) Newspapers (quality and popular press)

7) Classified ads that appear in any of the types of publications cited above (Anuncios por palabras que aparezcan en cualquier tipo de prensa citado anteriormente.)

I would appreciate it very much if someone could tell me how Ican collect these materials during the second half of May inthe above mentioned five Latin American countries.

Thank you very much.

Gonzalo Martínez CaminoDpto. de FilologíaUniv. de Cantabria

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)