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The vulgar tongue : Green's history of slang
- Title
- The vulgar tongue : Green's history of slang / Jonathon Green.
- Author
- Green, Jonathon, 1948-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-7120 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 419 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The Vulgar Tongue tells the full story of English language slang, from its origins in early British beggar books to its spread in American and Australian culture in the eighteenth century"--
- Alternative Title
- Green's history of slang
- History of slang
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-407) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: slang: a user's manual -- In the beginning: the pre-history -- Lewd, lousey language: beggars and their books -- Crime and punishment: the vocabulary of villainy -- Play's the thing: the stage and the song -- The sound of the city: no city, no slang -- Flash: this sporting life -- Down under: Larrikin lingo -- Sex in the city: the agreeable ruts of life -- Cockney sparrers: mean streets and music halls -- America: pioneers -- Keeping score: nineteenth-century slang lexicography -- Gayspeak: the lavender lexicon -- American century: the slang capital of the world -- African-American slang: the flesh made word -- Campus and counter-culture: teenage skills -- War: one thing it's good for -- Conclusion: as it was in the beginning.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-7120
- ISBN
- 9780199398140
- 0199398143
- LCCN
- 2014018521
- OCLC
- 2014018521
- Author
- Green, Jonathon, 1948- author.
- Title
- The vulgar tongue : Green's history of slang / Jonathon Green.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-407) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-7120