Estilo comunicativo y estilo de vida del adolescente español

Abstract

With the intention of serving the high school teacher of some use, the way Spanish adolescents speak nowadays has been examined as an extension of a way of thinking and living. Having ordered hierarchically the diverse and heterogeneous traits of the adolescent variety, we postulate an adolescent communicative style. We highlight in it metarepresentative utterances, as a reflection of a powerful metacognition, the power of expressive and appealing functions, as well as the role of social networks in the dissemination and creation of this variety. The relationship between the adolescents’ communicative style and their lifestyle has led us to their formulaic language and search for identity, which characterizes this stage of human life. In view of such panorama, the last questions are aimed at what this study can offer to the Language and Literature teacher as well as what the teacher can do.