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Student Slang at IIT Madras: a Linguistic Field Study

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:swb:ch1-200600201
Date20 February 2006
CreatorsRichter, Evelyn
ContributorsTU Chemnitz, Philosophische Fakultät
PublisherUniversitätsbibliothek Chemnitz
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:masterThesis
Formatapplication/pdf, text/plain, application/zip

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