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1 online resource (vii, 117 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Pragmatics & beyond,
0166-6258 ;
II:5
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Pragmatics & beyond ; II:5.
0166-6258
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-117). |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slang.
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Slang. |
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Colloquial language.
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Colloquial language. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Sornig, Karl. Lexical innovation. Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1981 (DLC) 82204731 (OCoLC)10018352 |
| ISBN |
9789027280800 (electronic book) |
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9027280800 (electronic book) |
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9027225184 |
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9789027225184 |
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9027225184 (paperback) |
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9789027225184 (paperback) |
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