Slang across societies : motivations and construction /
Davie, Jim
Slang across societies : motivations and construction / Jim Davie. - New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. - xi, 366 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction -- Linguistic data: varities, sources and methodologies -- Non-standard language: concepts and perspectives -- Youth and criminal language practices: attitudes and motivations -- Invention and borrowing -- Semantic change -- The role of affixation -- Compounding and reduplication -- Phonetics and phonology -- Clipping and the use of acronyms and other abbreviations -- Final comments.
9781138558830 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781138558823 (hardback : alk. paper)
Slang.
Colloquial language.
Sociolinguistics.
Language.
P409 / .D38
Slang across societies : motivations and construction / Jim Davie. - New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. - xi, 366 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction -- Linguistic data: varities, sources and methodologies -- Non-standard language: concepts and perspectives -- Youth and criminal language practices: attitudes and motivations -- Invention and borrowing -- Semantic change -- The role of affixation -- Compounding and reduplication -- Phonetics and phonology -- Clipping and the use of acronyms and other abbreviations -- Final comments.
9781138558830 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781138558823 (hardback : alk. paper)
Slang.
Colloquial language.
Sociolinguistics.
Language.
P409 / .D38
