Automata, languages and programming : 10th colloquium, Barcelona, Spain,July 18-22, 1983 / J. Diaz (ed.)

• Record Nr.: UNISA990000207630203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin [etc.] : Springer-Verlag, copyr. 1983
• ISBN: 3-540-12317-2
• Descrizione fisica: VIII, 733 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Collana: Lecture notes in computer science ; 154
• Disciplina: 00513
• Collocazione: 001 LNCS 154 (A); 001 LNCS 154 (B)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Ain'thology : the history and life of a taboo word / / edited by Patricia Donaher and Seth Katz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826033803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4438-7872-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 417.2
• Soggetti: Taboo, Linguistic; English language - Semantics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The word ain't is used by speakers of all dialects and sociolects of English. Nonetheless, language critics view ain't as marking speakers as ""lazy"" or ""stupid""; and the educated assume ain't is on its deathbed, used only in clichés. Everyone has an opinion about ain't. Even the grammar-checker in Microsoft Word flags every ain't with a red underscore. But why? Over the past 100 years, only a few articles and sections of books have reviewed the history of ain't or discussed it in dialect cont...