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Vietnam war slang : a dictionary on historical principles

Title: Vietnam war slang : a dictionary on historical principles / Tom Dalzell.
Author: Dalzell, Tom, 1951-
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

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x, 173 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration's escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the language. War has always been an incubator for slang; it is brutal, and brutality demands a vocabulary to describe what we don't encounter in peacetime civilian life. Furthermore, such language serves to create an intense bond between comrades in the armed forces. The troops in Vietnam faced the usual demands of war, as well as several that were unique to Vietnam - a murky political basis for the war, widespread corruption in the ruling government, untraditional guerilla warfare, an unpredictable civilian population in Vietnam, and a growing lack of popular support for the war back in the US. For all these reasons, the language of those who fought in Vietnam was a vivid reflection of life in wartime. Vietnam War Slang lays out the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Assuming no prior knowledge, it presents around 2000 headwords, with each entry divided into sections giving parts of speech, definitions, glosses, the countries of origin, dates of earliest known citations, and citations. It will be an essential resource for Vietnam veterans and their families, students and readers of history, and anyone interested in the principles underpinning the development of slang"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Dictionaries.
Military history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-173)

Call Number

JFE 15-5597

ISBN

9780415839402 (hardback)
0415839408 (hardback)
9780415839419 (paperback)
0415839416 (paperback)
9781315766911 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
9781317661863 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
9781317661870 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
9781317661856 (Mobipocket ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014000474

OCLC

854611146

Author

Dalzell, Tom, 1951-

Title

Vietnam war slang : a dictionary on historical principles / Tom Dalzell.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-173)

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Other Form:

ebook version 9781317661863

Research Call Number

JFE 15-5597

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