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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 ...

Table of Contents:
1: What is Slang? 2: Spawning 3: Development 4: Survival and Metamorphosis 5: The Spread of Slang 6: Prigs, Culls, and Blosses: Cant and Flash Language 7: Jolly Good Show: British Slang to the Twentieth Century 8: Whangdoodles and Fixings: Early American Slang 9: Bludgers, Sooks and Moffies: English Slang around the World 10: Top Bananas and Bunny-boilers: The Media and Entertainment Age 11: Leet to Lols: The Digital Age 12: Endsville Acknowledgements Explanatory Notes

About the Author :
Julie Coleman was born in Coventry and attended Finham Park Comprehensive. She studied at Manchester University and King's College London, taught at Lund University in Sweden, and is now a Professor in the School of English at the University of Leicester. She has written several books about dictionaries.

Review :
`[Coleman's] book is to use an epithet she might appreciate well sick.' Independent on Sunday `Review from previous edition Enjoyable and succinct. Rarely, since Eric Partridge, has any scholar evinced such pleasure in the vulgar tongue... Coleman is a "top banana".' Robert McCrum, The Observer `Completely fascinating ... immensely enjoyable ... Coleman's thinking lifts this book above the usual semi-disposable level of writing about rude words.' James McConnachie, The Sunday Times `Coleman relishes slang in all its chewy, vigorous glory, and gives a sociological insight ... This book is the 'cat's whiskers'' The Independent on Sunday


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199679171
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199679177
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 480 gr


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