Slang

Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198729537


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"In this Very Short Introduction Jonathon Green asks what words qualify as slang, and whether slang should be acknowledged as a language in its own right. Looking forward, he considers what the digital revolution means for the future of slang."--Cover flap.


Slang
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Jonathon Green
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"In this Very Short Introduction Jonathon Green asks what words qualify as slang, and whether slang should be acknowledged as a language in its own right. Looki
Slang: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Jonathon Green
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rap
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Lynda Mugglestone
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dict
The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Grant Barrett
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-06-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Ha
Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 152
Authors: John Edwards
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language, presenting a succinct account of the most important aspects - both "micro" and "macro" - of