TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davie,Jim
TI  - Slang across societies: motivations and construction 
SN  - 9781138558830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - P409 .D38
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Slang
KW  - Colloquial language
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Language
N1  - 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
ER  -