Oxford University Press, 2009. — 257 p. ISBN: 978-0-19-531463-2 Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 320 p. New Yorkers hail a "cab" because of the one-horse, two-wheeled European carriage called a cabriolet. The "flappers" of the 1920s were named after fledgling ducks, and the original "skyscrapers" were mere 16-story buildings. University of Connecticut sociology professor Allen has researched the origin of slang words commonly used today and...
Routledge, 2014. — xi, 242 p. — ISBN: 978-1-315-85778-7. Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the world today. The book illustrates the application of a range of different methodologies to the study of slang and demonstrates the interconnection between the different...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 374 p. Engagingly and accessibly written and assumes no background knowledge.Covers the Old English period to 2011, using blogs and tweets to explore contemporary slang. Shows the reader how they can do the same. Includes a word index for the slang terms in the book.
Brassey's, Inc., 2003. — 432 p. "War Slang". Paul Dickson, one of the country's leading authorities on American slang, offers the first comprehensive collection of fighting words and wartime phrases Americans have used from the Civil War to the Iraq War. This definitive dictionary, updated and expanded to include the events of September 11 and the war on terrorism, is arranged...
Basserman, 2006. - 160 p. ISBN: 3809419826 Ob „5-O’Clock-Tea, „Fish & Chips, oder auch der allseits beliebte Smalltalk über das Londoner Wetter – Englisch ist zweifellos die Weltsprache Nummer 1. Jeder beherrscht sie. Und wenn nicht, kann man zumindest so tun – mit Hilfe dieses amüsanten kleinen Buchs. Was einem bei einem Trip durch das United Kingdom allerdings in kürzester...
Peterson's, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0768912431. An essential reference tool for any international student attending college in the U.S., this informative dictionary features the most common slang and idioms used on college campuses across the nation. With its easy-to-use format, conversational tone, and real-world advice from international students, readers will be able to...
New York: Ballantine Books, 2008. — 186 p. — ISBN: 0345507029. There’s no such thing as too much redneck. And it’s easy to understand why. A veritable gumbo of indigenous ingenuity, this deliciously distinct dialect rolls off the tongue like drool in the presence of a barbecue sandwich. Now, just in time for no time in particular, Jeff Foxworthy’s three bestsellers are rolled...
Oxford University Press, USA, UK, 2016. — 92 p. — (Very Short Introductions) — ISBN: 0198729537. 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...
Robinson, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1472139666, 13 978-1472139665. Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring,...
Robinson, 2017. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 1472139666, 13 978-1472139665. Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring,...
Robinson, 2017. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 1472139666, 13 978-1472139665. Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring,...
Oxford University Press. 2014. 432 p. ISBN: 0199398143 Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today's culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and to convey humor in the everyday. But how did slang escape its stigma as the language of the streets and integrate itself so...
Text Publishing, 2019. — 351 p. — ISBN: 978-1-925773-89-2. In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in 1812, he...
Polimetrica, 2008, -325 p. English Library: the Linguistics Bookshelf, Volume 2. Despite the amount of work that has been carried out to collect English slang data, there has been, to date, no general introductory work that has attempted to synthesize the main points of predictable relevance of slang as a linguistic phenomenon. This book aims to fill the gap. The reasons for...
Chambers, 2007. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0550102868. Pardon My English! looks into some of the shadier recesses of the English language, considering the slang terms used by different professions and sectors of society, the slang used in different countries and different parts of Britain, and the development of slang over the centuries. In doing so, it covers a huge variety of words,...
Espressoenglish, 2014. — 73 p. It can be frustrating if you have a good level of English, and you can understand newspaper articles and texts … but when you watch TV shows, movies, or listening to English speakers, you are lost when they use slang and idioms that you’ve never heard! The e-book + MP3 expression organized by topic, many examples of suggestions that allows you to...
Writer's Digest Books, 2006. - 432 p. ISBN: 1582974233 Do You Know Your Subculture Slang? "If your house hasn't been looted yet, it will be, so put everything you can in the bank and make mule characters carry the rest." "She will act as his beard when his parents come over and at office parties." "Surely a duck kicker would not disturb ducks this old?" Do you ever feel like...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 358 p. — ISBN 10 1472806433, ISBN 13 978-1472806437. — ASIN B01BY34CU0. Military life has always been ruled by its own language, specific sets of terms and phrases that separate the serving man or woman from their civilian counterpart. There is the official version of ranks and acronyms, and the more unofficial, colloquial language of the barrack room...
Penguin UK, 2016. — 213 p. — ISBN10: 014103856X, 13 978-0141038568. "I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in. I was a juvenile offender back in the mid 1970s and went on to become an adult prisoner in the 1980s and beyond. My shortest prison sentence was 7 days (for criminal damage) and my longest sentence was life (for bank robbery and...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 354 p. — ISBN10: 0691169020, ISBN13: 978-0691169026. How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 349 p. — ISBN10: 0691169020, ISBN13: 978-0691169026. How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less...
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