Data collection: Survey

Along side my data collection through transcribing I thought it would be good to do some additional data collecting to see how teenage girls self-reported their usage of slang.

Objectives: 

•  Which age group and gender is the most critical of teenage girl speak?  
•   Are teenage girls critical of how one another speak? Do they think they use more slang offline than on?

Sampling Group: 

• Gender: For the survey I will be asking questions to both female and males to get a bigger understanding if the criticism towards a teenage girls gender or the age.
• Age: I want to ask a range of ages. I want to see what age group is doing to criticism and to see if teenagers agree with what is being said.  

How will I conduct my questionnaire?:

I will be creating a questionnaire that I can print off and give to people to fill in. On the survey I will ask their age and gender so I can keep on top who says what. I will also give the questionnaire to the people who who are part of data collection for the transcripts for online and offline conversations to see if they over self-report or not.   

Teenage girl language innovation for centuries?

Girls have always been criticised for the language they use however, it has been argued that its teenage girls who introduce a lot more words to the English language than any other group. In 2003, Terrttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg (from University of Helsinki linguists) wrote a book called 'Historical Sociolinguistics.' In this book they had surveyed 6,000 letters from 1417 to 1681. They discovered female letter-writers changed the way they wrote, adopted new words and discarded older words such as 'doth' and 'maketh' faster than male letter-writers. 





http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/teenage-girls-have-been-revolutionizing-language-16th-century-180956216/?no-ist

Transcript 1:

A: What happened to it?
B: [Look at all my research
C: I don’t know it only happened yesterday
D: │I haven’t even started
C: Yeaaah bec… it’s Charles and Camilla in the car
A: Is he alright?
C: Prince of Wales is uninjured (Someone starts singing Christmas carols in the background)
D: Whys this made the news?
B: Cause he’s a prince, no one cares about normal people dying
C: Prince of wales has been involved in a car crash after a collision with a deer whilst staying on the estate
A: │Wasn’t
D: │ On the estate? As if it was on the estate
A: Isn’t Isn’t that how Diana died?
D: Well yeah but…
C: │Aldi was damaged in the incident this is very
D: │They have Aldi on the estate?
A: Aldi! (laughs)
C: Like the car
A: No (Laughs)
D: Oh (laughs)
A: Not Aldi the supermarket, do you really think they’d shop at Aldi?
D: That’s what I was thinking!
A: (laughs)
C: They’re all fine basically only the dent on the urr Aldi which is why it’s made the news
A: │What about the (1) bloody deer?
D: The deer’s dead
A: The poor deer
C: Probably (3) urm
A: Do they not care about the deer?
C: Ooh guys everyone should cover up their laptop web cams now, exclamation mark
D: Oh cause they go on it?
C: FBI director something James (3)
A: Well all they’ll see is my gorgeous face (laughs) watching the urr
C: I mean, I know everyone wants to spy on me but
D: │No when I was younger I used to be really paranoid about that and put blue tack over the camera (laughs)
C: Women thrown off Ibiza flight after oh, I that be, they’d been thrown off a boat
B: Same, fallen out of a plane or something
C: That’s why I stopped reading
A: Why were they thrown off for?
C: Shouting racist abuse, I thought they were fully thrown off a place or something
B: (Muffled) sound like such a bitch
A: You do realise you have me singing in that?