Ch. 1. From tape to CD-ROM -- 1.1. Getting teenage talk on tape -- 1.2. Transcription -- 1.3. Tagging -- 1.4. CD-ROM production -- Ch. 2. The speakers -- 2.1. Social differences: Do the teenagers care? -- 2.2. Social background: What does the corpus tell us? -- 2.3. The recruits and the boroughs -- Ch. 3. The conversations -- 3.1. The teenagers and their peers -- 3.2. School talk -- 3.3. Family talk -- Ch. 4. Slanguage -- 4.1. Slang -- 4.2. Swearing -- 4.3. Vague words -- Ch. 5. Variation in the use of reported speech -- 5.1. Markers of reported speech -- 5.2. Mimickry and zero-quotations -- 5.3. The quotative marker (BE) like -- 5.4. Reporting verbs: Go vs Say -- Ch. 6. Non-standard grammar and the trendy use of intensifiers -- 6.1. Non-standard grammatical features -- 6.2. On the trendy use of intensifiers -- Ch. 7. Teenagers' use of tags -- 7.1. Why tags? -- 7.2. The distribution of tags in COLT -- Ch. 8. Ritual conflict -- 8.1. Gender, class and race
8.2. Data and methodology -- 8.3. Ritual conflict in COLT -- Ch. 9. Conclusion
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