12 March 2010
Talkback: That's sick, our changing language
Yeah, but no, but yeah!
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Social media and texting have made abbreviation an art form, and 12-year-olds now talk about things being 'wicked', meaning good.
But is this a sign of the degeneration of language, or simply another generational evolution in the way we communicate?
Guests
Professor Roly Sussex
Professor of Applied Language Studies, University of Queensland
Debbie de Laps
Executive officer, Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE)
Jonathan Green
Editor, The Drum
Dr Felicity Cox
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Language Sciences, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University
Further Information
Victorian Association for the Teaching of English
Victorian English language curriculum
Presenter
Richard Aedy
Producer
Amanda Armstrong
Story Researcher and Producer
Jane Shields
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