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Quand un nouveau mot devient identitaire pour les jeunes: le cas de 'bolos'

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Title in English When a new word becomes an identity marker for young people: a case study of 'bolos'
Authors

PODHORNÁ-POLICKÁ Alena FIÉVET Anne-Caroline

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Adolescence
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords youth slang; identitary words; French; neology; diffusion of innovations
Description Describing the usage, meaning, and users of the French neologism 'bolos',this study presents the results of a quantitative investigation carried out on a sample of more than 1200 francophone speakers within the age bracket of 10-30 years of age. The extension of usage of this insult from suburban slang into commonly used youth slang took place between 2006 and 2008; we can thus speak about a passage of an identity-marking neologism of a sociological type to a neologism which marks identity with respect to one's age.
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