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DIGGING THE LINGO OF EUROPEAN TEENS; Jugendsprache--langue des jeunes--Youth Language: Linguistische und soziolinguistische Perspektiven

DIGGING THE LINGO OF EUROPEAN TEENS; Jugendsprache--langue des jeunes--Youth Language:... In Talk Is Cheap, Haiman explores various ways in which speaker-meaning and sentence-meaning (to use Gricean language) pull apart. Displacement, detachment, autonomy, insincerity, grammaticalization, alienation, un-plain speaking, ritual language, and arbitrariness are overlapping (but, of course, nonsynonymous) concepts employed in this book. The metamessage in these forms of discourse is ‘I don’t mean this’ or ‘I don’t mean exactly this’. In the postscript Haiman writes, “Although I believe that much of what I have just said here is possibly true, I am not so naive or pompous as to mistake this book for any variety of hard science, soft science, or social science. It is an idiosyncratic personal essay” (191). Haiman discusses various speech modes which involve not only such detachment but the speakers’ and hearers’ awareness of this detachment. Chapter 1 deals with sarcasm, which has become extremely common among young Americans and is much the norm in television and film. Chapter 2, “Sarcasm and Its Neighbors,” provides a taxonomy and definitions of put-ons, irony, lies, parody, caricature, affectional insults, and the GUILTATIVE mode. Since all but the last are familiar, I will mention only the last. In the guiltative, the metamessage “is not produced by the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2001 by American Dialect Society
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0003-1283
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1527-2133
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10.1215/00031283-76-1-104
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Abstract

In Talk Is Cheap, Haiman explores various ways in which speaker-meaning and sentence-meaning (to use Gricean language) pull apart. Displacement, detachment, autonomy, insincerity, grammaticalization, alienation, un-plain speaking, ritual language, and arbitrariness are overlapping (but, of course, nonsynonymous) concepts employed in this book. The metamessage in these forms of discourse is ‘I don’t mean this’ or ‘I don’t mean exactly this’. In the postscript Haiman writes, “Although I believe that much of what I have just said here is possibly true, I am not so naive or pompous as to mistake this book for any variety of hard science, soft science, or social science. It is an idiosyncratic personal essay” (191). Haiman discusses various speech modes which involve not only such detachment but the speakers’ and hearers’ awareness of this detachment. Chapter 1 deals with sarcasm, which has become extremely common among young Americans and is much the norm in television and film. Chapter 2, “Sarcasm and Its Neighbors,” provides a taxonomy and definitions of put-ons, irony, lies, parody, caricature, affectional insults, and the GUILTATIVE mode. Since all but the last are familiar, I will mention only the last. In the guiltative, the metamessage “is not produced by the

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Published: Mar 1, 2001

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