Slang is informal language used among groups who are familiar with each other, like teenagers. It can make speech more emotionally expressive and concise. Slang evolves over time as new words and phrases are generated by youth and spread through popular culture. American slang in particular has become a global phenomenon, with youth worldwide adopting English terms from music and media to signal their membership in global pop culture.

2. slang

3. Slang
• is the use of informal words or expressions
that are not considered standard in the
speaker’s language.
• is often used by people in a group that are
familiar with it like teenagers.
• makes speech more emotionally
expressive and shorter.
• is usually taboo when speaking to people of
higher social status.

4. English or American slang?
• Cockney is history
• The globalisation of culture tends to be
the culture that is globalised in English or
more precise, in American English.
• The vehicle: Rap, hip hop, rock music, …
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5. Bad language is nothing new
• Slang says a lot about attitudes,
particularly male attitudes.
• It is related with insults, with racism, with
nationalism, with all forms of cruelty.
• There are 1500 words for fucking, but
there is not word for love.

6. 16th Century
• Words for penis: daggers, swords, guns,
clubs and needles (basically toys for boys)
• Words for vagina: they are basically
narrow alleyways, traps, snares, pits,…:
again they are something that boys are
frightened of.

7. Slang of American youth
• Slang is ephemeral, and so to survive it
must constantly regenerate;
• Both the ephemeral and regenerative
traits are nowhere more apparent than in
the slang of American youth.

8. The medium can be the message.
• Slang is the “tribe” identity and the
manifestation of the identity’s benefits.
• At times the primary message is not in the
meaning of what is said.

9. 4 Factors
• The four factors that are the most likely to
produce slang are youth, oppression,
sports and vice, which provide an impetus
to coin and use slang for different
sociolinguistic reasons.
• Of these four factors, youth is the most
powerful stimulus for the creation and
distribution of slang.

10. My generation
• When we are young, we are subject to the
generational imperative to invent a slang
vocabulary that we perceive as our own.
• We reject the slang of our older brothers
and sisters (let alone our parents) in favor
of a new lexicon.

11. Born in the USA
• The Global Spread of American Slang
lets young people around the world share
a common culture.
• American slang has become a global
code, with colorful examples from the
music scene.
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http://www.pbs.org/speak/words/sezwho/globalslang/

12. Cool, wicked, chill, dope, nerd.
• Young people around the world use this
kind of slang to show they’re connected to
American pop culture.
• Slang’s main social function is to signal
belonging: American slang marks the
speaker or writer as an active and
informed member of global youth
culture.

13. Exclusive and global
• Vernacular English is powerfully expressive
because — paradoxically — it is both exclusive
and global. In any host society.
• American slang lives in a world of linguistic and
cultural knowledge not available at school.
• American slang lives in the specialized media of
the young, such as CD booklets, songs and
video clips, magazines and Web sites.

14. Global code for youth
• Through the media, young people enter
fan communities where they learn to
incorporate certain forms of English into
both their speech and writing to show that
they’re a part of youth culture.
• As a result, American slang have become
a global code for youth worldwide
included in a local code — the national
language.

15. Flipped out = flipar
• When host languages incorporate slang,
speakers inflect loan nouns and verbs just
like native items and build compounds of
English and native nouns.
• For instance, flipped out comes as
ausgeflippt in German, flippato in Italian,
flippé in French, and fliparisménos in
Greek, and flipar in Spanish.

16. Signals social identity abroad
• Items such as hi, cool and cu ( as in ‘see you’ )
are spreading into general German and Spanish
slang, openers such as aight heads have a
specific social meaning among hip-hop
enthusiasts.
• They identify writer (and addressee) not only as
trendy young people, but as members of the
same fan community, (in this case, Hip Hop).

17. Conversational Routines
• greetings and farewells — hi, hey, what's
up, bye, cu, peace, cheers
• thanks and apologies — thanx, sorry
• discourse markers — ok, anyway,
whatever, yeah, yes
• various “chunks” — no way! that's all! I'm
ready! let's go! shut up!

18. Non-standard spellings
• In print and on the Internet, English often
comes with non-standard spellings that
may indicate colloquial or non-standard
pronunciation or may serve as purely
visual distinction.

19. Vernacular spelling patterns
The following vernacular spelling patterns are
common in various countries:
• participial suffix -in' (e.g. livin', movin', rockin')
• reductions, assimilations (e.g. wanna, ya, mo')
• noun plural ending -a/-ah instead of -er (e.g.
brotha, sistah)
• noun plural ending -z for -s (e.g. newz, boyz,
beatz, propz)
• spelling variants ph and k (e.g. phat, phunky,
kool, komradz)
• lexical substitutions (e.g. u, 2, 4, cu la8tr)

20. Slang, Globalization and English
as a Foreign Language
• American slang has a global currency in
youth-cultural contexts.
• It is not transmitted through the
institutional teaching of EFL.
• It is the outcome of rapid linguistic transfer
via non-curricular sources, reaching
teenagers before entering English-
language dictionaries.

21. Slang and EFL
• However, American slang does not
threaten institutional EFL. The relationship
is best viewed as complementary, both
linguistically and in terms of language
attitudes.
• Knowledge of slang extends the
knowledge of English with respect to
particular semantic fields and speech
styles.

22. Slang and EFL
• Although slang could never substitute for
EFL in its instrumental value, it clearly
connects foreign-language learning with
adolescent cultural experience.

23. webs
• http://www.slangvocabulary.com/wp/
• http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
• http://onlineslangdictionary.com/
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• http://www.urbandictionary.com/
• http://jonathongreen.co.uk/
• http://www.alphadictionary.com/slang/K.html