The Use of Noun Compositions in Teenage Slang - Analysis of the Teen Magazine Bravo

Noun compositions portray a model of word formation where at least two independent words are combined to a new one. Modern German is rich in noun compositions and because of that, this phenomenon is very frequent in use. This available contribution is aiming to analyze this model of word formation in the German teen magazine Bravo. Considering the classification of noun compositions, it is to say that it was followed by the theory of Fleischer and Barz (1995). As a research object, teenage slang was chosen for its classification as language variety and its playful language structure. On top of that, we analyzed 10 news reports from "Deutsche Welle" to recognize if there are any differences between teenage slang and media language.

Conjunctive Relation in English Advertisement on Child and Teen Magazines

There are many previous types of research about semiotics, language style and image in analyzing advertisements. This study analyzes advertisements by conjunctive relations. This is aimed at observing how the conjunctive relation analyzing the advertisement and constructing the meaning to target readers. This study describes the use of conjunctive relation that results from different stages in the advertisement. The data used advertisements published from August – September 2018 in Junior and Teen Magazine. The method of this study is descriptive qualitative. This study used purposive based sampling based on the objectives of the study. In analyzing data, researchers use Systemic Functional Linguistics approach. This step of analysis uses a domain, taxonomy, componential and cultural theme analysis. The study finds out that the advertisement is structured by exposition genre and the message is delivered well to specific target readers; children or teenagers. Besides,conjunctive relation’s analysis finds the invitation meaning explicitly. In conclusion, the language and meaning are easy to understand both the target readers.

From private to public? Changing perceptions of young women in Seventeen magazine, 1955–1965

As a form of popular culture, magazines provide a lens through which historians can examine the dominant attitudes and values of a society. This article examines the portrayal of young American women in the popular teen magazine, Seventeen magazine, during the period 1955–1965. The study documents and analyses the messages conveyed within the magazine regarding ideals concerning feminine behaviour and appearance. Seventeen provides an opportunity to investigate both the production and reception of the cultural ideals for young American women as the decade of the 1950s ends and that of the 1960s begins. I argue that the letters-to-the-editor represented a public platform in which readers could voice opinions, express identities, engage in debates and communicate with each other. In this way, it is possible to see a change in the framing of women’s roles over time; a change that occurred not via a purely ‘top-down’ processes, but via and exchange relationship between Editors, writers and readers, and indeed between the readers themselves.

Miss Modern: Youthful Feminine Modernity and the Nascent Teenager, 1930–40

Interwar working girls’ papers constructed their intended readers as a distinct age-related group in terms of identity, activities and interests. Focusing on Miss Modern, a successful monthly magazine which ran from 1930 to 1940, this chapter looks closely at its construction of youthful feminine modernity, engaging with representations of lifestyle, including consumption, work, appearance, leisure, sociability, romance, and the pursuit of independence. The chapter demonstrates that a nascent teenage identity and lifestyle was cultivated in interwar working girls’ magazines, most notably in Miss Modern, and that the figure of ‘miss modern’ was a precursor to the teenager as imagined in the pages of postwar Honey, Britain’s first glossy teen magazine.