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'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies'ELEY WILIAMS, author of The Liar's Dictionary'When it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2019-11-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Stories of Slang
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'If you're up for an adventure through the back alleys of English, The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.' Kory Stamper, Times Literary Supplement'Few lexicographers are lucky enough to have both endlessly pleasurable work and the talent to write amusingly about...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2017-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Slang
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Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25

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Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Odd Job Man
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For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang – the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom – producing a succession of dictionaries, most recently the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang, that have been recognised as the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-04-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Days In The Life
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Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount a shared...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-12-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Crooked Talk
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The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531. Jonathon Green is our national expert on slang, and in Crooked Talk he looks at...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-06-02

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