Slang & sociability [[electronic resource] ] : in-group language among college students / / Connie Eble
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Eble Connie C
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| Titolo: |
Slang & sociability [[electronic resource] ] : in-group language among college students / / Connie Eble
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1996 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 427/.973 |
| Soggetto topico: | College students - United States - Language |
| College students - United States - Social life and customs | |
| English language - United States - Slang | |
| Group identity - United States | |
| Americanisms | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Definition; 2 Form; 3 Meaning; 4 Borrowing and Allusion; 5 Use; 6 Effects; 7 Culture; Appendix 1. The Top Forty in Slang; Appendix 2. Slang Items with at Least One Synonym; Appendix 3. Some American College Slang circa 1900; Select Glossary of Student Slang; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Notes; Works Cited; General 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; Index of Words, Expressions, and Affixes; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its 'regular' counterpart. Connie Eble refutes this notion as she reveals the sources, poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expressions. In Slang and Sociability, Eble explores the words and phrases that American college students use casually among themselves. Based on more than 10,000 examples submitted by Eble's students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over the last twenty years, the book shows that slang is dynamic vocabulary that cannot be dismi |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Slang and sociability |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Slang & sociability |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-1057-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463424103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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