Fifty Years among the New Words
A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991
Series: Centennial Series of the American Dialect Society;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 October 1991
- ISBN 9780521413770
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 279x216x16 mm
- Weight 910 g
- Language English 0
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This book, first published in 1992, is a unique repository of language use from 1941-91.
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American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society has included a regular collection of neologisms called 'Among the New Words'. One issue, for example, includes four quotations for 'date rape,' two for 'designated driver,' and six for 'DNA fingerprinting,' 'intifada', and other current terms. Complete documentation is given for all citations, which are fuller than those given in most dictionaries. At the time these terms appeared in 'Among the New Words', they appeared in none of the major dictionaries. A survey of 'Among the New Words' can therefore reveal much about the origin and early use of these expressions and the social climate in which they prospered. Now this valuable resource is available in one volume, first published in 1992. The original articles themselves are reproduced and John Algeo has prepared a complete index, with glossary, to every word and expression included in the 113 installments of 'Among the New Words'. It is a unique repository of language use from 1941-91.
"New words from politics, popular literature, sports, business, medicine, and just about any field or academic discipline one can think of are included in this helpful resource. Most interesting is the opening essay in which the formation of new words is intelligently and intelligibly described. Academic libraries will want to have this as a supplement to their standard dictionary sources....Large public libraries will also find Fifty Years valuable." Reference Books Bulletin
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Collecting new words; The making of new words; The motives for new words; References; Index of new words with glosses; Index of contributors; Among the new words, 1941-91.
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