Slang : a very short introduction
Green, Jonathon, 1948-2016
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Slang 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. Jonathon Green's wide-ranging tour of this fascinating sub-set of the English language 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 its many dictionaries.
Main title:
Slang : a very short introduction / Jonathon Green.
Author:
Green, Jonathon, 1948-, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Collation:
144 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780198729532 (pbk)
Dewey class:
427
LC class:
PE3711
Local class:
427
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1045259
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