Slang across societies motivations and construction / Jim Davie.
| Author/creator | Davie, Jim |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| Description | xi, 366 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| 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 note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018006615 |
| ISBN | 9781138558823 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781138558830 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |