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Slang
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Jonathon Green
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"In this Very Short Introduction Jonathon Green asks what words qualify as slang, and whether slang should be acknowledged as a language in its own right. Looki
Slang: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Jonathon Green
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rap
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Lynda Mugglestone
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dict
The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Grant Barrett
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-06-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Ha
Virtual Words
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: Jonathon Keats
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that acco