\u2018Young people adjust their language depending on who they are talking to<\/strong>. This difference signals a high level of language competence rather than sloppiness,\u2019 says Elin Alm\u00e9r, who has explored differences and similarities in young women\u2019s stories depending on the situation in which they are told.<\/p>\n She found that when the young women spoke in a group where the group members were same-age schoolmates, they mainly told anecdotes and stories that exemplify a standpoint. When interviewed by an adult they did not know, they instead tended to tell retellings and narratives. She also found that while the young people used a lot of small words such as \u2018du vet\u2019 and \u2018s\u00e5n\u2019 (Eng. equivalents \u2018you know\u2019 and \u2018like\u2019) in the group situations, they used hardly any of these expressions when interviewed.<\/p>\n \u2018The differences imply that it is not correct to talk about one single adolescent language, since there are in fact several,\u2019 says Alm\u00e9r.<\/p>\n Alm\u00e9r also analysed the young women\u2019s stories from the perspective that you can have different approaches depending on how you relate to yourself and others. The approach can also give a good idea about to what extent the individual has reflected on why she believes and thinks the way she does regarding issues that concern her. The way language users relate to and express themselves regarding these aspects can reflect different identity styles. Yet, within this framework, young people clearly use different varieties in different contexts.<\/p>\n \u2018The young women\u2019s language use indicated that they had different identity styles, meaning that their different language use had features that didn\u2019t change with the context<\/strong>. This is interesting since it implies that we already when starting a conversation have different abilities to position ourselves in relation to others<\/strong>,\u2019 says Alm\u00e9r.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the University of Gothenburg press release via AlphaGalileo: The language that adolescents use is often described as sloppy, with an air of \u2018What\u2019s going to happen to all these… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[70,13,57,25,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/KidsTalking.jpg\" "\\"talking\\"")
The language that adolescents use is often described as sloppy, with an air of \u2018What\u2019s going to happen to all these kids who can\u2019t even talk properly?\u2019 Yet research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that young people indeed possess a high level of language competence, and also a good ability to adapt to different persons and situations<\/strong>. However, there are also features of their language that do not change according to the situation and that indicate that they have a specific identity style that also affects their communication<\/strong>.<\/p>\n