The City in Slang [[electronic resource] ] : New York Life and Popular Speech

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450826203321
• Autore: Allen Irving L. <1931-2002.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cary, : Oxford University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0-19-535776-0; 1-4294-0661-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 427.97471; 427/.97471
• Soggetti: 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.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ; 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