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Student Slang at IIT Madras: a Linguistic Field Study

Year: 2006

Type: dissertation

Abstract: Students at a certain university often develop their own in-group language which only insiders will understand. This phenomenon is very distinctive in IIT Madras. My MA thesis tries to describe and classify the student slang spoken at IIT Madras. This classification is done according to etymological origin and applied word formation patterns on the one hand and according to context in which the terms are used on the other. The results are based on three questionnaires conducted at IIT Madras and via email correspondence.

Source: Qucosa - Monarch (Chemnitz University of Technology)

Author: Evelyn Richter

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W201554067

Cites: 15

Cited by: 2

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