| Publication type: | Conference other |
| Type of review: | Not specified |
| Title: | How youth word of the year initiatives can impact the perception of youth in public discourse |
| Authors: | von Beyme, Evelyne |
| et. al: | No |
| Conference details: | International Conference "Key Words", University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 1–2 December 2023 |
| Issue Date: | 1-Dec-2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Jugendsprache; Jugendwortinitiative |
| Subject (DDC): | 305: Groups (age, origine, gender, income) 401.4: Terminology, discourse analysis, pragmatics |
| Abstract: | Youth words are particular key words as lexical markers that provide an indication of how young people perceive and reflect current social, digital and political developments. They thus give youth more visibility in public discourse. One way in which youth language can be present in public discourse is the Youth Word of the Year. Recent media contributions on youth words from blogs, forums, websites and online magazines can be found in the German, Anglo-American, French, Italian and Scandinavian regions – which provides an indication of the increase in public interest in youth words. However, the actual research on youth language (Groff et al. 2022, Ziegler 2018) is lacking a focus on lexical and semantic features in the form of key words. This is problematic – firstly, because youth language conveys the social and political perspectives of young people via key words; secondly, because the views of young people and they themselves become visible in public discourse via their language and can thus be given greater consideration. Thirdly, because the socio-political decision-making processes of today still take place without the adults of tomorrow. In my presentation I will show the potential of key words for the perception of youth in public discourse. In the first part, I will take a closer look at the current state of youth language research, followed by a look at the international perception of youth language in the public media (part 2). In part three, I present the German Youth Word of the Year initiative. Finally, in part 4, I discuss the opportunities and challenges of such initiatives for society and research. |
| Further description: | Groff, C./ Hollington, A. et al. (Ed.) (2022). Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices. Bos-ton/ Berlin de Gruyter. Ziegler, A. (Ed.) (2018). Jugendsprachen/ Youth Languages: Aktuelle Perspektiven internationaler Forschung/ Current Perspectives of International Research. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29333 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Language Competence (ILC) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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von Beyme, E. (2023, December 1). How youth word of the year initiatives can impact the perception of youth in public discourse. International Conference “Key Words”, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 1–2 December 2023.
von Beyme, E. (2023) ‘How youth word of the year initiatives can impact the perception of youth in public discourse’, in International Conference ‘Key Words’, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 1–2 December 2023.
E. von Beyme, “How youth word of the year initiatives can impact the perception of youth in public discourse,” in International Conference “Key Words”, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 1–2 December 2023, Dec. 2023.
VON BEYME, Evelyne, 2023. How youth word of the year initiatives can impact the perception of youth in public discourse. In: International Conference „Key Words“, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 1–2 December 2023. Conference presentation. 1 Dezember 2023
von Beyme, Evelyne. 2023. “How Youth Word of the Year Initiatives Can Impact the Perception of Youth in Public Discourse.” Conference presentation. In International Conference “Key Words”, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 1–2 December 2023.
von Beyme, Evelyne. “How Youth Word of the Year Initiatives Can Impact the Perception of Youth in Public Discourse.” International Conference “Key Words”, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 1–2 December 2023, 2023.
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