Slang across societies motivations and construction / Jim Davie.

Author/creator Davie, Jim
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Descriptionxi, 366 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects

Contents Introduction -- Linguistic data: varities, sources and methodologies -- Non-standard language: concepts and perspectives -- Youth and criminal language practices: attitudes and motivations -- Invention and borrowing -- Semantic change -- The role of affixation -- Compounding and reduplication -- Phonetics and phonology -- Clipping and the use of acronyms and other abbreviations -- Final comments.
General noteIncludes index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018006615
ISBN9781138558823 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9781138558830 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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