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Gabriel Posted 21 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Slang in movies - help!

Hi,

I am working on a Phd. thesis on slang in movies. However, it is pretty difficult to get theoretical information on this area. Could you make some suggestions, please?
  

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Hi Gabriel, welcome to the Forums, That sounds very interesting. Do you mean a theory that describes the slangs in movies? (Just curious )

  • Hi Gabriel, welcome to the Forums, That sounds very interesting.
  • Do you mean a theory that describes the slangs in movies?
  • (Just curious )
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Hi Gabriel, welcome to the Forums,

That sounds very interesting. Do you mean a theory that describes the slangs in movies? (Just curious
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hi ,I'm working on a similar thesis.Slang in movies from 1950 to 2010.
I'm going to analyze the evolution of slang in teenagers language through the analysis of a film per each decade.
Can we help each other?I haven't find anything yet....it's pretty hard to write a good linguistics analysis...and it's pretty hard to find just one movie each decade that has a lot of slang and has had som
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Could you define "slang"? What types of words are looking at? And what area of linguistics are you interested in? Is this about phonetics/phonology? Syntax? Semantics/pragmatics? Sociolinguistics? Historical linguistics?
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uhm...i'm looking at sociolinguistics and historical linguistics areas.....
actually i still don't have a real index and that's the problem,cause i'm not sure what will be easier for me....
I think i need some movie about young people.That would be perfect to analyze youth slang and then compare the changes of slang through the years...
For example...if i analyze Grease and Footlose
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edit: I just realized that the first post is from 5 years ago. I guess this doesn't matter by now, but I don't want to erase my entire post...

If this is really a PhD thesis, you should have a supervisor, no? Maybe you should talk to him/her about where to go next. You're going to need to narrow down your area of research considerably more and your supervisor is the best person to see ab
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- I have a definition of slang,I did a lot of searching and I found a lot of sources about that.
After defining slang as what it is in linguistic ,stylistic and sociological way,and after defining what slang is not,I'd like to analyse the reasons of its usage.
- I would like to study which is the function of slang in a specific group like teenagers and then how teenslang is changed throug
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chiaradf- I have a definition of slang,I did a lot of searching and I found a lot of sources about that.
After defining slang as what it is in linguistic ,stylistic and sociological way,and after defining what slang is not,I'd like to analyse the reasons of its usage.
Out of curiosity, what is your definition?
chiaradf-Age range,tee
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I am writing my BA thesis on African-American slang and my empirical material is movies as well. I am not sure if I've got it right but you all probably do the research of slang development BASED on films. I mean you use films as the way to get information on slang. this is the way I am doing it. If I lived in the States I would probably do the research based on the information given by real Afri
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I am writing my BA thesis on African-American slang and my empirical material is movies as well. I am not sure if I've got it right but you all probably do the research of slang development BASED on films. I mean you use films as the way to get information on slang. this is the way I am doing it. If I lived in the States I would probably do the research based on the information given by
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Hi I am Amer I am MA student have an assingment to differentiate between African-American slang and and the white people in term of pronunciation or phonetics features can you help me
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