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A Cool, Awesome, Great Sociolinguistic Analysis
of Adjectival Word Choice
Presented by Caitlin Arthur
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Purpose of Study
• Analyze the adjectival lexical choices of individuals of different genders, ages and occupations, in formal and informal social situations.
• Adjectives in question: Cool, sweet, nice, great, and awesome
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Background StudySo different and pretty cool! Recycling
intensifiers in Toronto, Canada by Sali A. Tagliamonte
• Purpose: Study intensifier usage in apparent time as related to age, gender, and emotionality of contento Main intensifiers studied were very, really, so and
pretty• Ex: I’m very independent. / That’s really
surprising.
• Methodology: Randomly sampled quotations of informal conversation from the Toronto English Corpus
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Background StudySo different and pretty cool! Recycling
intensifiers in Toronto, Canada by Sali A. Tagliamonte
• Findings: o Age- Different intensifiers favored by different
age groupso Gender- “Very” and “so” favored by womeno Emotionality- Use of “so” tied to emotional
adjectives especially among women
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Hypotheses
• GenderWomen will use a wider variety of
adjectives than men.
• AgeYouth will favor adjectives, cool and sweet while older generations will favor nice,
awesome and great.
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Hypotheses
• Occupation/Focus of StudyEducators and students of language will use cool and sweet less than those in other
fields.
• Formality of Social SituationCool and sweet will be favored in informal
social situations, while nice, awesome and great will be favored in formal social situations.
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Methodology• Written survey
o Demographic questions o 6 questions simulating formal social situationso 6 questions simulating informal social situations
• Online survey posted on Facebook
• Paper copies distributed to family, friends and colleagues
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Methodology
Your employer informs you that sales are up 10% this month. You say "That's ______.”
a. cool b. nice c. sweet
d. awesome e. great f. other_____________
Question Format
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Findings
Overall Pattern
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Overall Pattern
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Gender
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Gender
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Age
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Occupation/Focus of Study
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Occupation/Focus of Study%
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Formality of Social Situation
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Formality of Social Situation
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Conclusions• Great is the overall preferred adjective choice
• GenderWomen do not necessarily use a wider variety of adjectives than men.
• AgeYounger generations use the adjectives cool and sweet more than older generations.
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Conclusions
• Occupation/Focus of StudyEducators and students of language use cool and sweet nearly as much as those in other fields.
• Formality of Social SituationCool, sweet and awesome are favored in informal social situations, while nice, and
great are favored in formal social situations.
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Thank you!
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Works CitedTagliamonte, Sali A. "So different and pretty cool! Recycling intensifiers in Toronto, Canada." English Language and Linguistics 12.2 (2008): 361-394. Print.