Abstract

RIANO BAYONA, Yineth. Speech as an expression of popular culture. Colomb. Appl. Linguist. J. [online]. 2013, vol.15, n.2, pp.221-233. ISSN 0123-4641.

Abstract This article represents the outcomes of a qualitative research applied to teenagers from the city of Bogota, Colombia. The objective of this research is to understand the social representations implicit in their everyday expressions, and how these representations construct and transform popular culture, based on survey application and production of written texts. This work is developed from a linguistic and sociological perspective, and was performed with one hundred students from a school in Bogota, whose ages ranged between 14 and 17 years. The results of this research have shown that the social representations of teenagers in Bogota, which are common in their daily expressions, are concerned with social presets, the ways they use to set their identity as individuals belonging to a specific social group, and also with the ideas they have about how to behave and interact with others. Popular culture with youth opposition to the established, is manifested through the informal use of language and the creation of words without the necessary requirements to be considered as belonging to the high culture. In this sense, mediation of this high culture was found in the existence of popular culture.

Keywords : popular culture; speech; language; social representations.

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