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UNINA9910457678303321 |
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Autore |
Sornig Karl |
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Lexical innovation [[electronic resource] ] : a study of slang, colloquialisms and casual speech / / Karl Sornig |
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Amsterdam, : Benjamins, 1981 |
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1-283-35969-3 |
9786613359698 |
90-272-8080-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (125 p.) |
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Pragmatics & beyond, , 0166-6258 ; ; 2:5 |
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Slang |
Colloquial language |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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LEXICAL INNOVATION A Study of Slang, Colloquialisms and Casual Speech; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; 0. BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION; 1. SUBSTANDARD LANGUAGE; 1.1 Borrowings : foreign sources; 1.2 Loans from other sociolects or dialects; 1.3 The fascination of antiquity; 1.3.1. Slang-Etymologies; 1.3.2. Eclipse of etymological memory; 1.3.3. Creative misunderstanding: folk-etymology; 1.4 Ascendance and decline; 1.5. Meaning reception and semantic shift; 1.6. The ephemerity of slangisms; 1.7. Neologisms; 2. STRUCTURES AND MANIPULATIONS |
2.1.Dissimitative morphophonemic manipulations2.2. Assimilative/associative manipulations; 2.2.1. Rhyming and alliteration; 2.2.2. Reduplication; 2.3. Onomatopoeia and morphophonologioal symbolization (LautSymbolik); 2.4. Revitalisation and activation of the morpheme potential; 2.5. Proper names and generic nouns; 2.6. Intensifiers; 2.7 Invectives and expletives; 2.8. Syntagms; 3. SLANG, AND THE UNIVERSE OF METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE; 3.1. Contiguity relations; 3.1.1. Pars pro toto; 3.1.2. Other contiguity relations; 3.1.3. Absurdities, great and small; 3.1.4. Animal and plant metaphors |
3.1.5. Lexical paraphrases of metaphors3.2. Reduction vs. extension of |
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semantic content: quantitative manipulations; 3.3. Qualitative manipulations: euphemisms and pejoratives; 3.4. Componential re-arrangement: focusing and shifting of semantic features; 3.4.1. Semantic (metaphorical) activation; 3.4.2. Antonyms; 3.5. ""Fertile"" semantic areas; 3.5.1. The lexicon of the human body; a) Parts of the body; b) Bodily functions, sexual and otherwise; 3.5.2. Eating and drinking, alcohol, cigarettes etc; 3.5.3. Mental and physical deficiencies, diseases, and death |
3.5.4. Money, payment, and insolvency3.5.5. Other areas; 3.6. Metaphorical parallelism; 3.7. Downright absurdities; 4. SOME REASONS FOR VARIABILITY: RULES AND THEIR USERS; 4.1. Oral communication; 4.2. Rule-abiding and rule-transcending linguistic behaviour; 4.3. Subcultures under innovational stress and their languages; 4.4. Persuasive Language; 4.5. The poeticity of slang; 4.6. Language born from fear: language taboo; 4.7. Pathological and developmental linguistic deficiencies; 5. SOME PURPOSES: DISTANCE, PARODY, RE-INTERPRETATION AND RE-EVALUATION |
5.1. The evaluation of reality by re-interpretation and re-naming5.2. Stigmatized language variants: innovative deviation; 5.3. Emotionali zation and the Promethean principle of innovation; 5.4. Aggressiveness and Fun; 5.5. Language as a toy, a game; 5,5,1. Linguistic playfulness: a universal; 5.5.2. Punning; 5.5.3. Masquerading Foreignness: Maccavonisms; 5.5.4. Nonsense, delightful and powerful; 5.5.5. Nonsense, literary; 5.5.6. New sense created by nonsense; 5.6. The insufficient translatability of connotations; 5.7. Conventionalization in the making; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES |
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In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. Metaphorical manipulation of lexical items, as the main device used for the production of slangisms, shows remarkable similarities in languages otherwise quite different from each other. Slang is analyzed as a kind of substandard language variation which any full-fledged language is bound to develop because it is experimental in that it is born from insubordination and protest against the stress experienced in the speech co |
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UNINA9910704349903321 |
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Autore |
Fram Miranda S (Miranda Susan) |
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Evaluation of volatile organic compound (VOC) blank data and application of study reporting levels to groundwater data collected for the California GAMA Priority Basin Project, May 2004 through September 2010 [[electronic resource] /] / by Miranda S. Fram, Lisa D. Olsen, and Kenneth Belitz |
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Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 94 pages) : color illustrations |
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Scientific investigations report ; ; 2012-5139 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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OlsenLisa D |
BelitzKenneth |
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Volatile organic compounds - Environmental aspects - California |
Groundwater - Pollution - California |
Water - Pollution potential - California |
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Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 31, 2013). |
"A product of the California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program." |
"Prepared in cooperation with the California State Water Resources Control Board." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-73). |
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UNINA9910820302203321 |
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Autore |
Perry Ravi K |
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Titolo |
Black mayors, white majorities : the balancing act of racial politics / / Ravi K. Perry |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (363 p.) |
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Collana |
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Justice and social inquiry |
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POL020000SOC001000HIS036090 |
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Disciplina |
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African American mayors |
African Americans - Politics and government |
African Americans - Social conditions |
Municipal government - United States |
United States Politics and government |
United States Race relations Political aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; 1 A Way Out of No Way; 2 The Model of Ohio; 3 An Ebb and Flow System; 4 Are We "to Be" or Not?; 5 "Lowest and Best" (and Black) Bids; 6 Strong Housing Support and a Weak Mayor; 7 Trickle-Up Public Opinion; 8 Racial Populism; 9 Target Practice; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; References; Index |
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"Explores how, if at all, the representation of black interests is being pursued by black mayors and whether Blacks' historically high expectations for black mayors are realistic"-- |
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