Slang versus "Proper English" in the modern world
Relationship between Proper English and vocabulary associated with her formal varieties. Differentiation of the notion of the Proper English apart from slang. Dialect in the English-speaking world from social, intellectual and cultural point of view.
| Рубрика | Иностранные языки и языкознание |
| Вид | статья |
| Язык | английский |
| Дата добавления | 19.03.2023 |
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Talking about slang also reinforces a sense of appropriacy, much in the same way as political correctness has made people more sensitive to how language can hurt and discriminate, says Mr. Thorne.
The media has moved over the last two decades from excluding slang to incorporating, debating and also celebrating it: in Britain newspapers regularly carry serious or spoof updates on the language of the moment, while youth language has featured in TV dramas such as Skins and The Inbetweeners, triggering debates about authenticity. (Thorne, 2014: 9).
In the previous article the work of Stephen Kelman was analyzed with its novelty of Pigeon English in the literature. Nowadays, slang has become an integral part of the social sphere and one of the main and most problematic objects of the lexicological investigation. Slang arises in the multiple structures of society and in the future helps to preserve and modify social diversity. It is a necessary and inevitable result of the development of the language of modern society. It evolves where people of different origins meet at the cultural “crossroads”. Such example was depicted in the novel with famous slang expressions, such as asweh, donkey hours, dey touch, adjei, bogah (Kelman, 2011).
Also in 2010 one Jean Gross, described as a “communications czar” who advises the Government on children's speech, was widely reported as claiming that teenagers were becoming unemployable because they had a vocabulary of just 800 words. The reality is that typical teenagers actually develop a vocabulary of around 40,000 words by the time they reach 16, but one linguist mentioned by Ms Gross had found that many choose to limit themselves to a much smaller range in regular conversation, and on a daily basis could use as few as 800. It goes without saying, too, that the abbreviated codes used on phones and computers, just like those once employed for telegrams, air traffic control or CB-radio, deliberately and unproblematically use only a very limited vocabulary (Thorne, 2014: 9).
Conclusions
Education is essential so people understand how different social groups speak, and how their language relates to ethnicity or social class. You can very quickly slip into the perception that there is good language and bad language, and then make the false link between bad language and bad people. And all of us should learn how important it is to spot when slang is inappropriate. Whether we like it or not, the way we talk affects the way people see us and this can have very serious consequences.
The general “flattening out” of a hierarchical society and the relaxation of linguistic prejudices mean that slang may be seen not as something inherently substandard, but as an option among many available linguistic styles. At the same time there must always be a set of words and phrases which is beyond the reach of most speakers, that is always “deviant”, “transgressive” and opaque. (Thorne, 2014: 8). This slang must renew itself, not just in implied contrast with “standard” language, but with earlier versions of itself. So novel and exotic slang words will continue to sprout, to metamorphose, to wither and disappear or else to spread and fertilise the common ground of language. This process may now be more visible and familiar, the crossover into wider informal use may happen much faster nowadays (given the complicity of the media), and the shock value of the terms themselves may be lessened (the invention and use of slang does risk becoming locked into familiarity and clich6, like the tired, repetitive gestures of rock, rap, conceptual art and fashion), but the process is very unlikely ever to stop.
Bibliography
1. Barber Charles The English Language: A historical introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 306 p.
2. Irving Lewis Allan The City in Slang. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 320 p.
3. Lerer Seth The History of the English Language volume II. USA, Virginia: The Teaching Company, 2008. 226 p.
4. Kelman Stephen Pigeon English. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. 137p.
5. Thorne Tony Dictionary of Contemporary Slang. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 493 p.
6. Slang to Standard: How Casual Language Can Become Acceptable. 2015. URL: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/ slang-to-standard-how-casual-language-can-become-acceptable/.
7. Thorne Pony BBC News. Mind Your Slanguage. 2015. URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/ 8388545.stm.
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