Slang Across Societies: Motivations and Construction

ISBN-13: 9781138558830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 366 str.

Jim Davie

Opis

Slang across Societies is an introductory reference work and textbook which aims to acquaint readers with key themes in the study of youth, criminal and colloquial language practices.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Figures  Guide to Abbreviations  Transliteration, transcription systems and note on translation  Introduction  PART 1  Chapter 1: Linguistic data  Chapter 2: Non-standard language  Chapter 3: Youth and criminal language practices  PART II  Chapter 4: Invention and borrowing  Chapter 5: Semantic change  Chapter 6: The role of affixiation  Chapter 7: Compounding and reduplication  Chapter 8: Phonetics and phonolgy  Chapter 9: Clipping and the use of acronyms and other abbreviations  Chapter 10: Final comments  Index

O autorze

Jim Davie pursued an academic career as a researcher and lecturer in Russian at the University of Portsmouth (1993–98) before moving on to work in the civil service. He has written Slang Across Societies as an independent researcher.