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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Green, Jonathon, 1948- author.     Subjects     English language -- Slang -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Green, Jonathon, 1948- author.       by title:      The vulgar tongue : ...         MARC Display

The vulgar tongue : Green's history of slang / Jonathon Green. by Green, Jonathon, 1948- author. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2015. Subjects English language -- Slang -- History. ISBN:  9780199398140 (hardback : acid-free paper) : 0199398143 (hardback : acid-free paper) Description:  419 pages ; 25 cm Contents:  Preface -- 1. Introduction: Slang: A User's Manual -- 2. In the Beginning: The Pre-history -- 3. Lewd, Lousey Language: Beggars and Their Books -- 4. Crime and Punishment: The Vocabulary of Villainy -- 5. Play's the Thing: The Stage and the Song -- 6. The Sound of the City: No City, No Slang -- 7. Flash: This Sporting Life -- 8. Down Under: Larrikin Lingo -- 9. Sex in the City: The Agreeable Ruts of Life -- 10. Cockney Sparrers: Mean Streets and Music Halls -- 11. America: Pioneers -- 12. Keeping Score: Nineteenth-century Slang Lexicography -- 13. Gayspeak: The Lavendar Lexicon -- 14. American Century: The Slang Capital of the World -- 15. African-American Slang: The Flesh Made Word -- 16. Campus and Counter-Culture: Teenage Skills -- 17. War: One Thing It's Good For -- 18. Conclusion: As It Was in the Beginning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The Vulgar Tongue tells the full story of English language slang, from its origins in early British beggar books to its spread in American and Australian culture in the eighteenth century"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 427 Green Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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