Davie, Jim <br/><br/>
Slang across societies :  motivations and construction / 
Jim Davie. 
 - New York :  Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,  2019. 
 - xi, 366 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138558830 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781138558823 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slang.<br/>Colloquial language.<br/>Sociolinguistics.<br/>Language.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P409  / .D38