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UNINA9910450826203321 |
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Allen Irving L. <1931-2002.> |
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Titolo |
The City in Slang [[electronic resource] ] : New York Life and Popular Speech |
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Cary, : Oxford University Press, 1995 |
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0-19-535776-0 |
1-4294-0661-5 |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Americanisms -- New York (State) -- New York |
City and town life -- Terminology |
English language -- New York (State) -- New York -- Slang |
English language -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York |
English language -- Spoken English -- New York (State) -- New York |
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs |
Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; PART I: Manhattan in the Mirror of Slang; 1. New York City Life and Popular Speech; 2. The Social Meaning of City Streets; PART II: The Modern Ruptures of Traditional Life; 3. The Bright Lights; 4. New Ways of Urban Living; 5. Tall Buildings; PART III: The Shadow Worlds of Social Class in City Life; 6. Mean Streets; 7. The Sporting Life; PART IV: The Naming of Social Differences; 8. Social Types in City Streets; 9. Us and Them; 10. The Contempt for Provincial Life; Notes; References and Bibliography; Index of Words and Phrases; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S |
TU; V; W; Y; Author and Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular |
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speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanie |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00005219 |
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Thomas, Roberto |
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L'accertamento della filiazione naturale : il giudizio di ammissibilità e di merito, la prova del DNA, la fecondazione artificiale eterologa, il procedimento comparato con 11 stati esteri / Roberto Thomas |
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