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Slang: A Very Short Introduction [#465]
Slang: A Very Short Introduction [#465]
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  • Approaches the words of slang thematically, considering their various users and settings
  • Discusses the lexicography of slang and traces the 500 year history of slang dictionaries
  • Considers the future of slang in light of the digital revolution

  
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 rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases. 
  
This Very Short Introduction takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of this fascinating sub-set of the English language. It considers the meaning and origins of the word 'slang' itself, the ideas that a make a word 'slang', the long-running themes that run through slang, and the history of slang's many dictionaries.

目次: 

1: 'Slang': the word
2: 'Slang' as a linguistic register
3: Is slang a language?
4: The words of slang: themes and development
5: The users of slang
6: The components of slang
7: Recording slang
8: The lexicography of slang: slang's dictionaries
9: The future of slang

著者について: 

Jonathon Green, Independent scholar

Jonathon Green is a lexicographer and author of Green's Dictionary of Slang, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, and Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made.

"a welcome edition of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, and anyone seeking an accessible tour d'horizon of this lively subject will find that Green's book is just the ticket." - Benjamin George Friedman, Times Literary Supplement

商品情報

ISBN : 9780198729532

著者: 
Jonathon Green
ページ
144 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2016年02月
シリーズ
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Slang: A Very Short Introduction [#465]

Slang: A Very Short Introduction [#465]

Slang: A Very Short Introduction [#465]