Apreciaciones sobre elementos valorativos y usos fáticos en el estilo comunicativo juvenil

This paper offers an approach to youth language from the perspective of positive and negative evaluations studied in a Spanish Spoken Corpus of Youth Language (COLA, Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente). By analysing the tendency towards dysphemism among Spanish young people, in relation to phatic function, we reflect on the standardizing of verbal rudeness in general Spanish, paying special attention to its sociolinguistic effects.