The Life of Slang
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 February 2014
- ISBN 9780199679171
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 215x135x19 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures 0
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Short description:
This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet and explores why and how slang is used. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company.
MoreLong description:
This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey and machine-searchable newspaper collections provide a wealth of new information about historical slang, while blogs and tweets provide us with a completely new perspective on contemporary slang. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company.
Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents characterize the language of teenagers as sloppy, repetitive, and unintelligent, but these complaints are nothing new. In 1906, an Australian journalist overheard some youths on a street-corner:
Things will be bally slow till next pay-day. I've done in nearly all my spond. Here, now; cheese it, or I'll lob one in your lug. Lend us a cigarette. Lend it; oh, no, I don't part. Look out, here's a bobby going to tell us to shove along.
What, he wondered, was the world coming to. For the 411, read on ...
This book offers an entertaining and informative insight into the living and ever-developing creature that is slang in the English language. The title is particularly fitting, given that the book provides a natural history of slang, i.e., how it is created, how it develops, how it adapts and survives, and how it spreads into wider use.
Table of Contents:
What is Slang?
Spawning
Development
Survival and Metamorphosis
The Spread of Slang
Prigs, Culls, and Blosses: Cant and Flash Language
Jolly Good Show: British Slang to the Twentieth Century
Whangdoodles and Fixings: Early American Slang
Bludgers, Sooks and Moffies: English Slang around the World
Top Bananas and Bunny-boilers: The Media and Entertainment Age
Leet to Lols: The Digital Age
Endsville
Acknowledgements
Explanatory Notes
