"Voll Krass Geil Bro" - Eine linguistische analyse der jugendsprache in Deutschland

Youth language, it can also be calles youthful jargon, is a linguistic structure in which certain segments of the society reveal their own identities depending on the age group. The aim of this study is to analyze the idioms used by young people as well as linguistic structure of the youth language and examine them whit concrete examples. My thesis consists of four parts. In the first part of the study, the topic of youth language is overviewed. In this process, the definitions of "youth", "youth culture" and "youth language" is explained. As a result, it was concluded that ist was natural process for an teenager to distance himself from the parents and to turn towards a group fo friends. In addition, it is stated that this group of friends have theirown language and the adoption of the teenager by their friends is necessary for the development of self-worth. Afterwords, the historical development of youth language its cultural and political interactions, also how youth language was influcenced by language used by latin, old Greek and university teenagers are handled. The lifestyle of teenagers and how this lifestyle is perceived by adults has been studied. In the second part of the study, current research situations of youth language apart from today´s research was examined. One of the important issues in this part is the different approaches of the scientists who are interested in youth language. Based on these approaches, it has been mentioned that they from youth languages research models. In the third part of the study, linguistic features of youth language were introduced by adding examples from various sources. In this section, phonetic, morphological, and vocabulary features of youth language are examined. Young people have created a unique style of speech by using these features. The idoms used by the youth in the fourth and last part were analyzed. As a result of the research, it has been revealed that the use of language has chaned with social fectors as well as with age and it has been revealed the young people show their creativity and humor abilities in some specific words and sentences they use.